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Planning for Disasters: A Look at Emergency Procedures

Mr. Erik LIEBEGOTT

President

TransporTech LLC

P.O. Box 2007

Brockton, MA USA

Tel: +1 866.99.TTECH

Fax: +1 508-436-6768

eliebegott@transportech.com

www.transportech.com

Erik is the Founder and President of TransporTech, LLC, a company that is dedicated to the safe and proper transport of animals worldwide. 

He has over 12 years of logistics experience which includes positions held at Quick International Courier and TNT Express Worldwide. 

He is a graduate of Norwich University and currently resides with his wife and two children outside of Tampa, FL.

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“Lessons from Katrina: Disaster Planning and
  Response Management for Pets and Lab Animals”

Erik LIEBEGOTT

President

TransporTech LLC

It is without a doubt that the single greatest component of Disaster Recovery is advance preparation.  What you do to protect your facility from disaster today will directly benefit you and your animals in time of crisis.  Until recently, no formal program or service was in place that was capable of a large-scale pre-disaster animal rescue response.  To that end, the Emergency Animal Disaster Services Foundation (EADSF) was created with the sole purpose of providing advance evacuation of both pets and lab animals. 

This service currently operates on contract with various Federal, State and Local governments to operate a low or no-cost animal evacuation service from various collection points in and around major cities that would potentially fall within a large-scale natural disaster.  Many lessons were learned most recently from the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, not the least of which was that many people based their decision to evacuate the area on whether or not they could bring their pet(s) with them.  No one should be faced with that dilemma and the EADSF was set up to provide people with a sense of security when handing off their pets for evacuation.  All staff are from the animal care and animal transport industries and are fully aware of how much it means to hand off a pet to “a perfect stranger.” 

Every effort is made to give people peace of mind and that begins with the collection points being places that they are already familiar with;  their local vets, police and fire departments and local schools to name a few.  All vehicles used are insulated and fully climate-controlled.  Dog and cat crates are available for those who do not have one or cannot afford one. Pets are identified with bar code tags and copies are given to owners for positive ID.

Animals are then evacuated to a “central hub” where a multitude of large trucks are waiting to take the animals to pre-determined animal shelters away from the projected disaster area.  Full service and support of this equipment is provided outside of “normal service channels” during a crisis response effort.  While at the shelters, the animals receive full care as if they were dropped off at a kennel for the weekend.  Upon issuance of a “Return to Home” order, animals are then brought back to the owners on a scheduled basis. 

Similar, but much more involved plans are currently underway to provide similar services for evacuation of entire research colonies for Universities, Hospitals, Breeders and other bio-pharmaceutical companies which would have similar needs. 

PowerPoint Presentation

Jennifer Woods

J. Woods Livestock Services

RR #1

Blackie, Alberta

T0L 0J0 Canada

Tel: +1 403-684-3008

livestockhandling@mac.com

Bio-Info below power point

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“Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail!
  Do You Have An Emergency
  Plan in Place?”

Jennifer WOODS

Livestock Handling Specialist

J. Woods Livestock Services

Do you have an emergency or disaster plan incorporated into your company policy or risk management program?

Whether you are an owner, a freight forwarder or owner of the loading/unloading facility you need to be prepared for the unexpected.

Whether it be a transportation accident, fire, weather related emergency or an animal going down during transport, you need policy and procedures established ahead of time and people trained on how to respond to any of these incidents.

In this presentation Jennifer Woods will tell you how to establish an emergency response plan within your company so you are prepared for the worst case scenario. 

PowerPoint Presentation

Livestock Handling Specialist, Jennifer Woods of Blackie, Alberta obtained an Animal Science degree from Colorado State University. While attending CSU 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. She is trained and certified in Large Animal Rescue and has been assisting on accident scenes since 1998.

 

Currently, Jennifer works closely with and consults to the livestock industry across North America and Europe on livestock handling and behavior, transportation and emergency response. Jennifer has been delivering livestock handling courses including Livestock Emergency Response and Livestock Behavior and Handling  since 1997. In the past 9 years she has trained over 2,000 first responders, animal enforcement agents, livehaul drivers and producers in Canada and the United States in Livestock Emergency Response. She has also documented and/or investigated over 400 livehaul accidents across North America.

 

In 2005, Jennifer began working with large livestock production and processing companies on accident response policy and procedures. These programs have included; Emergency Euthanasia and Accident Prevention Training for Drivers.

 

Jennifer has certified Canadian Universities for the Canadian Council on Animal Care and developed a livestock behavior and handling curriculum for colleges. In 2004, she started working with Dr. Temple Grandin for certification to perform Livestock Handling Audits for Auction Marts and Meat Plants.

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