High-risk visitors, staff and contractors
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High risk visitors, staff and contractors include:
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Vets
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Livestock technicians eg. scanners, shearers
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Farm contractors
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Staff who move between farms
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Other farmers
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Livestock hauliers
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Deadstock collectors
Clearly communicate the farm’s biosecurity policy to all high-risk visitors, staff
and contractors.
Ensure that equipment brought into direct contact with livestock is cleaned
and disinfected before and after use.
Consider providing high-risk personnel with protective clothing and boots to use
and leave on the farm.
Ask contractors to give written declarations specifying what cleansing and disinfection
will take place before they enter your farm.
Are there any best practices you could adopt?
Ask all high-risk visitors to arrive wearing clean protective clothing and boots and to ensure all
equipment is disinfected.
All contractor vehicles and trailers accessing livestock areas should be clean and free of visible
manure on the outside of the vehicle, wheels, mudguards and wheel arches.
