Elements and Performance Criteria
- Apply biosecurity procedures to people, animals and equipment entering the site
- Possible sources of pathogen contamination entering the site are identified.
- Personal sanitation and hygiene is maintained including required change of clothing and showering if required on entry to quarantined area.
- Sign in procedures are completed with information supplied fully and accurately.
- Visitors are signed in, checked for risk profile and instructed in quarantine requirements.
- All equipment is cleaned and disinfected before being brought onto the site.
- Animals introduced to the site are checked for health status, isolated from all others and placed in disinfected sheds.
- Implement biosecurity procedures to prevent the incidence or spread of pathogens
- Potential biosecurity threats on the enterprise are identified.
- The potential costs and impacts of an outbreak of disease in a production facility are quantified and described.
- Possible sources of pathogen contamination being carried between sheds are identified.
- Procedures for entering sheds or moving from one shed to another are implemented.
- Order of priority and prescribed routes are established for movements, with younger or more susceptible animals visited before more resistant animals.
- Personal sanitation and equipment cleaning procedures are implemented for movement between sheds.
- Farm compound footpaths and areas around sheds are kept clear of debris.
- Apply on-farm sanitation practices to reduce the risk of disease
- Litter is cleaned from sheds and dust removed from surfaces.
- Shed areas are sprayed down with water and then allowed to dry before disinfection.
- Shed feeding and watering equipment is pressure cleaned and water lines flushed.
- Disinfectant is mixed and applied according to label requirements and enterprise procedures.
- Implement pest control to reduce the risk of disease
- High risk pathogens that can be introduced by pests are identified.
- Pests are excluded from the facility, and from individual sheds, by effective physical barriers.
- Pest numbers are monitored through the use of counts or other indicators.
- Pest control procedures are carried out including destruction of habitat and poisoning.
- Feeds imported are screened for introduction of pests.
- Review biosecurity procedures
- Records of biosecurity procedures are kept as required by standards and protocols.
- Effectiveness and progress of control activities are monitored and compared with planned objectives.
- Monitoring of sheds and facilities is carried out as part of work duties to ensure that work practices and procedures are applied in line with required standards and protocols.
- Issues and concerns with biosecurity are reported to management.
- Control activities are revised as required to address relevant protocols, maintain cost-effectiveness (including appropriate resource allocation) and contain wider impacts.
- Revisions to activities are communicated promptly to other staff.