Good Emergency Management Practice: The Essentials
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3.3 Lab reporting formats 3.4 SOP for shipping samples to international reference laboratory5 4. Health and safety 4.1 Health and safety for veterinarians and paraprofessionals 4.2 Health and safety for culling sta 4.3 Health and safety for disposal staff 5. Biosecurity 5.1 Biosecurity for veterinarians visiting suspect case 5.2 Biosecurity for veterinarians and others attending an infected site 5.3 Biosecurity for culling and disposal staff attending an infected site 5.4 Biosecurity for suspect and infected premises 5.5 Biosecurity for keepers of suspect and infected animals 5.6 Biosecurity for suspect and infected villages 5.7 Biosecurity procedures at uninfected livestock sites 5.8 Biosecurity procedures at uninfected slaughterhouses 6. Culling, disposal, cleansing and disinfection 6.1 Detailed methodology for all culling methods 6.2 Detailed methodology for all carcass disposal methods 6.3 Detailed methodology for treatment and disposal of manure and animal products 6.4 Detailed methodology for cleansing and disinfection of equipment 6.5 Detailed methodology for cleansing and disinfection of commercial housing 6.6 Detailed methodology for cleansing and disinfection of common areas 6.7 Detailed methodology for cleansing and disinfection of vehicles
Risk enterprise manuals These are codes of zoo-sanitary practice and instructions for situations that could be deemed as ‘risk enterprises’ in a disease emergency. They should cover acceptable and unacceptable zoo-sanitary practices when these enterprises find themselves located in infected areas, disease-control zones or disease-free areas. They may be prepared for: • livestock markets; • livestock shows, race meetings and other congregations of animals; • abattoirs and knackeries; • small goods (meat) processing plants; • dairy factories; • feedlots; • egg hatcheries and processing plants; • artificial breeding centres; • animal quarantine stations; • livestock traders and transporters; • zoos, wildlife parks and commercial aviaries; and 5
International reference laboratories will have their own procedures to receive samples from other countries. SOPs should account for these differences, depending on the disease agent and reference laboratories used.
