Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to work in quarantine site
- Ensure personal and/or work vehicles are decontaminated before entering the quarantine site.
- Contact with potential contaminants is reported according to enterprise requirements.
- Hands are washed before livestock, feed, plant stock or other products are handled.
- Showering and changing into work clothes is carried out if required.
- Appropriate clothing and footwear is put on before commencing work and street clothing is securely stored away from livestock, feed or other products.
- Footbaths are used thoroughly and checked for disinfectant level before entering site and sheds if required.
- Work in quarantine site
- Chemicals and/or medications are handled and stored appropriately.
- Different feed mixes, soils and/or growing media and/or other products are kept separate and appropriately marked according to enterprise procedures.
- Any cases of disease or pest infestation are identified and reported to supervisor.
- Any breaches of quarantine procedures are identified and reported to supervisor.
- Any Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) hazards are identified and appropriate action is taken according to enterprise policy and OHS legislation and codes.
- All waste products is disposed of according to enterprise procedures.
- All deceased livestock, unwanted biological material or damaged/infected plant stock are disposed of according to enterprise procedures.
- Information relating to work in quarantine site is recorded as required by the enterprise procedures.
- Assist in maintaining site quarantine procedures
- All visitors are informed of the quarantine procedures and are provided with appropriate clothing and footwear, if required by enterprise procedures.
- Visitors are required to sign in, state their recent activities and exposures, and wash or shower if required by enterprise procedures.
- Any observed breaches of quarantine procedures by visitors are noted and reported to supervisor.
- Gates and doors are kept locked where required by enterprise procedures and supervisor instructions.
- Where installed, security fencing is maintained according to supervisor's instructions.
- Deliveries to site are checked to ensure that established procedures for vehicle decontamination, unloading and receipt and holding or storage of stock and/or supplies are followed.
- Respond to site quarantine breach or problem
- The specific problem and its location is identified and reported to supervisor.
- Problems are secured according to enterprise procedures.
- Quarantine site and location of breach is cleaned and disinfected as required according to the specific nature of the problem and enterprise procedures.
- Livestock, plant stock suspected of being exposed to contaminants are isolated and monitored for evidence of contamination according to enterprise procedures.
- All contaminated stock/materials are treated and/or disposed of according to enterprise procedures.
- Information about the breach or problem is recorded according to enterprise procedures.