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BEING PRO-ACTIVE VERSUS REACTIVE: DEALING WITH ANIMAL INCIDENTS |
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Jennifer WOODS Reflected J Livestock J Woods Livestock Services RR #1 Blackie, Alberta T0L 0J0 Canada Tel: +1 403-684-3008
www.homepage.mac.com/ Livestock Handling Specialist Jennifer Woods of Blackie, Alberta obtained an Animal Science degree from Colorado State University in 1992. While attending university Jennifer studied under Dr. Temple Grandin and has continued to work with Dr. Grandin on livestock handling and welfare auditing. Jennifer has extensive experience with cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, elk and bison. Currently, Jennifer works closely with Alberta Farm Animal Care and consults to the livestock industry across North America and Europe. Jennifer has been delivering livestock handling courses including Livestock Emergency Response, Livestock Behavior and Handling and Livestock Handling for Youth since 1997. She has certified Canadian universities for the Canadian Council on Animal Care and developed a livestock behavior and handling curriculum for colleges. [ Back to Top ] |
Planning for Emergencies
Jennifer WOODS,
B.Sc.
A look at how Alberta has become pro-active instead of reactive to responding to motor vehicle accidents involving livestock. Accidents happen and unfortunately there are times that they occur during the transportation of animals. The presence of animals at an incident often heightens the danger to responders and the general public. Front line responders, rescue teams and handlers often have little or no training on how to manage emergency situations involving animals. In 1998 Alberta Farm Animal Care and Jennifer Woods teamed up to develop a Livestock Emergency Response Course to fill the need for training in this specialized area. The objective of the course was to provided emergency responders and handlers with the knowledge on how to handle livestock in emergency distress situations. Through this training program, the well being of animals involved in accidents has been improved while the safety of those responding has been enhanced. Jennifer provided an overview of the training program, who is the target audience, what we have learned through our Livestock Incident Tracking program and the reach of this program outside of the province and the country.
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Fraport AG Animal Welfare Adviror Dept BVD-OL, Building 206/Rm 1113 Frankfurt/Main, 60549 Germany Office: + 49 069 690 74331 Fax: + 49 069 690 74332 r.mcneill@fraport.de www.cargocity-frankfurt.de Miss Rebecca C. McNeill is employed by Fraport AG at Frankfurt Airport/Germany and acquired versatile experience while working for various Airlines and Handling Agents since 1977. As a consequence of the EU Directive on Animal Welfare during Transport and the German national legislation, Fraport AG had to provide a “responsible and competent person for animal transport”. The veterinary authority appointed Miss McNeill as the Animal Welfare Adviser for Fraport AG effective September 2000. One of the main aspects of this position is the conception of training courses on animal handling and rescue, conducting these classes and establishing emergency protocols for the Airport’s Fire brigade for animal rescue situations.
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Be Prepared!
Emergency Situations with Animals at an International Airport
Rebecca
McNEILL
The challenge of a routine fire fighter’s day with regards to animals is usually well known to most people:
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My cat is high up in the tree and cannot find the way back ! Please
help!” But can you imagine the adventures of a fire fighter at an International Airport with more than 90 million live animals transiting per year? From smuggled monkeys to pythons, from lost turtles in the passenger cabin to sleeping bats in the gates, from snakes travelling the world as a “resident” in the cargo compartments to wild boars galloping down the take-off strip during the night or circus animals on the highways around the airport after an accident…… Fire Brigades must be prepared for almost everything! To be ready for these situations and to ensure safety for both animal and humans, it became necessary to implement a training course for fire brigades to learn about the hazards when handling stressed animals, to brush up on some basic zoological facts and to offer practical training with various animal species. But training courses alone are useless in emergency situations without proper equipment: I got the snake! But what to do with it now? Fraport AG has invested in transport containers and other equipment to catch and handle escaped animals from bees to tigers and, of course, emergency protocols are on hand to ensure all relevant telephone numbers of veterinarians, grooms, transport companies etc. are available. In an ongoing program for practical training with animals, the designated 12 fire fighters have been to zoos, farms, laboratories, horse stables and share their experience with the other 180 colleagues to ensure Frankfurt Airport is prepared for emergency situations with animals, either on the Airport’s premises or on the highways around the Airport.
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Lisa SCHOPPA
Product
Development & Continental Airlines P.O. Box 4607 HQSMZ Houston, TX 77210 Tel: +1-713-324-4987 Fax: +1-713-324-7744 Cell: +-823-453-4409
As Continental Cargo’s Manager of Specialty Products, Lisa is responsible for product development and sales of Specialty products including Live Animals, Human Remains and Perishable and Temperature Sensitive Products, focusing primarily on the pharmaceutical industry. Lisa has spent nearly 21 years in the airline industry, handling positions of increasing stature and responsibility. She joined Houston-based Continental Airlines in 1984. She began her career with Passenger Reservations and was eventually promoted to Global Reservations Training and Quality Assurance Manager for world-wide passenger reservations. In 1996, Lisa moved to the Cargo Division where she worked to develop the Cargo Customer Service Center into a world-class operation. Lisa’s team was recognized by the Air Transport Association for outstanding customer service by a call center, and has remained at the top of that category. Shortly after arriving at Cargo, she established the Live Animal Desk (now known as the PetSafe Desk) in January 1997. She helped to launch the successful PetSafe program in June 2000, and in 2003, she was asked to move to Cargo Headquarters to manage specialty products where she continues to advance Continental’s PetSafe product. Lisa is a native of Houston, Texas; a graduate of the University of Houston with a Liberal Arts degree including a minor in History (her particular interest is Texas History). She’s been married to her High School sweetheart, David, for the past 28 years, and together they have 3 children ages 23, 19 and 16. Her family is completed by one cat named Miss Kitty and three dogs - a Chinese Pug named Ally; a Maltese named Jackson and a Boxer named Biff. |
The Latest on the Airline
Incident Reporting Requirement in the
USA Lisa SCHOPPA Manager of Specialty Products Continental Airlines Cargo
“Reports by Carriers on Incidents Involving Animals During Air Transport” was published in the February 14, 2005, Federal Register. The rule applies to any U. S. air carrier that provides scheduled passenger air transportation and adds a new section 234.13 to 14 CFR Part 234. The new section requires each carrier covered by the rule to submit a report on any incidents involving the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport to the Department’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division (ACPD) within 15 days of the end of each month. This is a technical change to a prior FAA final rule that would have required the reports to be submitted to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The DOT has clarified the Reporting Directive to provide guidance and answer questions about the form and manner in which the reports should be submitted to the ACPD. Effective April 11, 2005, the Department of Transportation (DOT) issued the final documents including the OMB’s approval of this Information Collection Request (ICR), and has announced that approval in a Federal Register notice with a specific compliance date of June 15th for the period May 1 – 31, 2005. This presentation detailed what information will be reported by Air Carriers, along with which carriers it will apply to and what information you won’t be receiving that could make a big difference in interpreting the data that you will receive. Attendees received the latest information on this very timely subject, and all this from the U.S. Air Carrier’s perspective. [ PDF of PowerPoint Presentation ] 285 kb |
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