Audit questions for PED prior to winter
By Ben Wooley
Transport
· Have you audited your truck wash and are they following yours and Alberta Pork’s biosecurity protocols?
· Do you have an alternative to allowing trucks to back up to your chute? If not:
o Are you inspecting trailers before they back up to your loading chute?
o Do you know the history of the trucks and trailers backing up to your chutes and where they have been prior to coming to your farm?
o Do you have written loading procedures for where the line of embarkation is? Does your staff follow these procedures? Do the truckers follow these procedures?
Feed and feedstuffs
· Are you using blood plasma or any other porcine derived products? If so do you know the origin of the plasma and is it safe?
· Does your feed mill use porcine products?
o Do they know the source or origin of these products and are they safe?
o If they do stock porcine products, what are their manufacturing sequencing protocols?
· Is your feed mill actively trying to protect your farm and business?
· Where have the delivery truck been and are they clean?
o Do you know the sequencing of the feed trucks? What have they hauled before hauling your feed?
Dead stock
· Are you using a renderer to collect your dead stock?
o Is your collection area secure with no chance of cross contamination?
o Is it possible to have separate entrances to the pickup area?
o Is the truck clean coming to your collection area?
· Do you have alternatives to rendering? If so, are they safer and are they approved?
Employees and entrance protocols
· Is the entrance way to your facility clean and are shoes kept out of the shower area?
· Do you have shower in/shower out protocols at all your facilities?
o If not do you have Danish entrances?
o Have you reviewed these protocols with your veterinarian to make sure they are secure?
o Have you reviewed your protocols with your staff to make sure they understand them?
o Is your staff following these protocols?
· Do you have written policies on downtime and direct and indirect exposure for your staff and do they understand them?
· Do you have written protocols for supplies entering your facility and do you have policies regarding what employees can bring into the facility? IE. Lunches, phones, ipods etc.
Manure disposal
· If you use contract manure haulers:
o Do you know where they have been prior to coming to your facility?
o Have they washed their trucks?
o Do you know where they have been prior to coming to your facility?
· Is anyone else spreading manure close to any of your facilities and do you know their health status?
Contractors/Visitors/Suppliers
· This means semen suppliers, propane deliveries, maintenance people, visitors, grass cutters, feed suppliers etc.
· Do you have written protocols in place for the entrance of visitors and contractors?
o Do you give them a written copy when they enter the facility?
o Do you make them sign off that they are following the protocols and are clean?
· Where have they been prior to coming to your facility?
· Are their vehicles clean?
· Are their tools and equipment clean?
· Have you reviewed your protocols with all contractors and anyone outside your company, including your veterinarian?
Veterinarian
· Have you reviewed all your protocols with your veterinarian?
· Does your veterinarian drive your health protocols and are they actively involved in protecting your facilities?
· Are you following your veterinarian’s protocols?
Miscellaneous
· Have you reviewed all your protocols with your staff and are you getting buy-in from them?
· Is your staff actively giving input to your protocols and are they constantly looking for holes in the system?
· Are you monitoring the national testing and are you constantly aware of what breaks there are and where? (Of any health outbreak)
Source: Alberta Pork