New Zealand Emergency Response Capability
AsureQuality is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to respond to livestock, horticultural, forestry, apicultural, GMO and marine biosecurity emergencies. We tap into and train staff and resources from across the company to deliver a proven team of dedicated biosecurity professionals who now number more than 650 New Zealand-wide.
In the case of a highly contagious exotic diseases like foot and mouth disease, AsureQuality is equipped to dispatch an initial investigating Veterinarian within half an hour of notification, file a detailed report 4.5 hours later, establish a National Co-ordination Centre anywhere in New Zealand within 15 hours and have all necessary Field Response staff mobilised 24 hours after the alarm is raised.
Emergency Biosecurity Response Services Include:
- Headquarters management, IT, communications, supplies
- Technical services - pest identification, in-field testing
- Administration and financial management
- Mapping capabilities and database management - geospatial services
- Surveying
- Tracing and movement control services
- Field resource management - on-farm containment, slaughter and disposal teams
- Public relations services - media, industry, affected parties, government
- Containment and control of plant and animal pests and diseases
Development and Implementation of Response Systems
We can provide a wide range of support to assist customers in establishing emergency response services including:
- Risk assessment
- Design of response systems
- Documentation (and maintenance) of response procedures and instructions
- Development of training programmes for response personnel
- Delivery of training for response personnel
- Auditing of response systems performance and capability
- Development and operation of database systems
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