Pest Control Workers

Pest Control Workers typically perform the following tasks: • Record work activities performed. • Inspect premises to identify infestation source and extent of damage to property, wall, or roof porosity and access to infested locations. • Recommend treatment and prevention methods for pest problems to clients. • Spray or dust chemical solutions, powders, or gases into rooms, onto clothing, furnishings, or wood, or over marshlands, ditches, or catch basins. • Clean work site after completion of job. • Drive truck equipped with power spraying equipment. • Measure area dimensions requiring treatment, calculate fumigant requirements, and estimate cost for service. • Study preliminary reports or diagrams of infested area and determine treatment type required to eliminate and prevent recurrence of infestation. • Direct, or assist other workers in, treatment or extermination processes to eliminate or control rodents, insects, or weeds. • Post warning signs and lock building doors to secure area to be fumigated. • Set mechanical traps, or place poisonous paste or bait in sewers, burrows, or ditches. • Cut or bore openings in building or surrounding concrete, access infested areas, insert nozzle, and inject pesticide to impregnate ground. • Clean and remove blockages from infested areas to facilitate spraying procedures and provide drainage, using brooms, mops, shovels, or rakes.