In the following table, record your rating for each topic, then assign each an action and a HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW ranking.
Developing a Biosecurity Action Plan:
A biosecurity action plan will help you prioritise the implementation of horse venue biosecurity practices. Now that you have ranked your priorities, you may also like to consider which ones you can achieve in the short and long terms.
As a guide, short-term activities can:
- Be planned and conducted within 12 months.
- Help your venue comply with regulatory requirements.
- Be financially feasible in the short-term.
- Fit in with venue/operations/enterprise time commitments.
Long-term activities:
- Are planned and conducted over more than one year.
- Need additional financial or personnel resources, not currently available.
- Enhance the overall quality of service, aesthetics and reportable administrative procedures.
The Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) Action Plan Template is only a guide and you may wish to develop your own model. Some key points to remember are that all actions must be:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timely
If this workbook is being used as part of a group workshop, plan for participants to decide on one short-term and one longterm goal. With each action, set-out the steps needed to achieve the task – this is especially helpful if a committee is working on a venue. A responsible person will need to be appointed to oversee the implementation of the action by a certain date.
A successful plan will provide for continuous improvement. As part of determining if the action has been planned and carried out successfully, a monitoring or recording system will need to be put in place. A monitoring program needs to consider:
- What are you monitoring?
- Where and when are you going to monitor?
- How will the monitoring take place?
- What records will you need to keep?
A responsible person will need to manage the monitoring process. This could be a different person to the one that implemented the plan.
A plan may also use a number of tools. The aerial photo (try Google maps) of the venue can be linked to tasks that need to be achieved. You may use technology as part of the recording processes – remember, good practices:
- Must be built into normal operational procedures.
- Need not be costly.
- Must be easy to follow.
Horse Venue Biosecurity Action Plan Template:
Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) Action Plan:
Action Plan:
Develop an action plan allocating responsibilities to relevant personnel.
- Contact the relevant authority through the district veterinary officer or the Emergency Animal Disease Watch Hotline – 1800 675 888.
- Follow all instructions as directed by the relevant authority.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Do not dispatch any livestock from the farm until authorised by the relevant authority.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure suspect livestock are isolated within the farm.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure companion animals of the suspect livestock are segregated from other livestock.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure movement of all other livestock within the farm, and surrounds, is restricted.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Delay or halt the shipment of livestock onto the farm.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Delay or halt the delivery of all non-essential commodities.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Secure the farm perimeter, limiting access to the farm and ensuring all vehicles and visitors only enter the farm under controlled conditions.
- Remove unnecessary personnel and machinery from livestock feeding and holding areas.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure that any personnel, equipment or machinery do not leave the farm until authorised by the relevant authority.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Compile a list of all livestock (number of head, identification and location), personnel and machinery movements over the past seven days. Prepare a site plan that details current allocations of livestock.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure all staff are made aware of the actions being taken and their individual
- responsibilities towards the action plan.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- Ensure that customers are advised if they are immediately affected by the delay in the supply of livestock.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
- If an emergency disease is identified, the farm will follow the requirements of the AUSVETPLAN, and directions from the relevant authority.
- Responsibility: [Insert person responsible for action]
Visitor Register:
In the interest of biosecurity, all visitors are required to fill in this Record Sheet
Visitor Risk Assessment:
Movement Records:
Husbandry Records:
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