Andrew Spencer CEO, APL

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Andrew SpencerCEO, APL

• Australian Pig Industry Emergency Management Plan
  - Porksafe

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What is PorkSAFE?

• Emergency Management Response Plan for Australian
  Pork industry covers
• Emergency animal disease outbreak
• Biological or residue contamination
• Environmental contamination
• Serious animal welfare issue
• Extortion or sabotage

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The PorkSAFE Plan
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PorkSAFE Stakeholders

• Producer focused
• Supply Chain Providers
• Customers
• Other Livestock Industries
• Public
• Regulators/Governments
• Media
• ..Internal stakeholders

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Porksafe Emergency Management Response Plan

• Annual Operating Plan targets for PorkSAFE
• Revision Completed
• Training Completed
• Testing Completed
• Validation Completed
• Resourcing Next

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PorkSAFE - Key Changes from Review

• Development of industry risk register
  assessment of risks threats (many unique to
  intensive production)
• Identified need for AusVET plan Industry
  Enterprise Manual now being developed
• Response management system now based on Incident
  Control System (I.C.S.)
• Enables a flexible scalable response in varied
  incident situations
• Provides common framework for people from
  multiple govt. agencies to work together
• Provides standard response operations
  procedures
• Reduces potential for miscommunications

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PorkSAFE Training

• Training in basic emergency management undertaken
  
• Included APL staff, producers, delegates,
  industry stakeholders government reps
• Critical to success
• Having the right people in place!
• Further targeted training
• Engagement education of our producers, industry
  stakeholders

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Testing PorkSAFE - Exercise Charlotte

• Simulation exercise Exercise Charlotte to test
  PorkSAFE held 20 21 October with the South
  Australian govt (PIRSA)
• First time an industry focused simulation
  exercise initiative undertaken with govt.
• Will be used as a case study
• Australian experts in emergency management
  assisted APL training acted as mentors to APL
  in simulation exercise
• Kevin Cooper Lyn Stenos from NSW DPI
• Rod Hayes Barry Calderbank from DPIW Tasmania

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Exercise Charlotte

• Simulation based on Aujeskys disease
• Category 4 disease under EADRA i.e. 80 industry
  / 20 govt funded
• Carried out as a real time scenario over 2 days
  with minimum information provided to participants
  pre-exercise
• APL established a control centre in Canberra head
  office
• APL liaison representatives (including producers)
  engaged at PIRSA (SA) headquarters.
• Tested all functions of the Porksafe plan i.e.
  incident control, planning, operations,
  logistics, communication and external meetings
  such as CCEAD

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Exercise Charlotte Outcomes

• Hot debriefs carried out internally APL and later
  with SA (PIRSA)
• Feedback also provided by mentors
• Confirms exercise met outcomes APL identified
  pre-exercise
• Gap Analysis
• Understanding of internal and external
  stakeholders
• Testing the crisis management plan
• Testing the ability of APL to develop policy in
  response to major operational challenges
• Full report available on the outcomes of Exercise
  Charlotte in coming weeks

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PorkSAFENext Steps

• Update PorkSAFE to reflect lessons learnt
  including
• human and financial resourcing of a real crisis
  maintaining a sustained response
• adequacy of required facilities infrastructure,
  including IT requirements
• ensuring business continuity
• functionality of central data base
• communication and information structures
• preparedness
• Improving preparedness, planning training both
  at farm industry level