The CCPA GROUP and DIN have defined a contingency plan that allows livestock farms to continue operating, by ensuring adequate safety conditions.
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, DIN has implemented a series of measures at the premises of its clients, in order to protect their sites and employees. These measures include visitor logbooks and instructions for the use of mandatory protective equipment.
DIN has created 6 simple stages, already implemented at the production sites where the company’s technicians operate, and proposes their implementation in all livestock farms:
1. Visitor Logbook
Essential for scheduling visits and deliveries, in order to avoid overlapping schedules and minimise contact between service providers.
This logbook is available to clients, preferentially in electronic format. If this solution cannot be implemented, visitor data should be recorded in the cleaning area.
2. Creation of Changing Areas
This measure allows visitors to change their clothing in a dedicated area, in order to avoid contact with other areas. A shower room or storage area can be used for this purpose.
3. Ensuring access to the Cleaning Area
In addition to the change of clothing, it is essential to follow adequate cleaning procedures. Ideally, this procedure should involve a shower and the disinfection of personal equipment, namely required accessories and mobile phones. Alternatively, alcohol-based products may be provided to disinfect the most exposed areas and accessories. Notebooks should go through a UV chamber.
4. Provision of Personal Protective Equipment
Gloves, masks, individual protection suits, hairnets and shoe covers should be provided to visitors, such as to ensure that all visits to the premises are conducted safely. The clothing items left in the changing area should be replaced with the garments worn at the site: boots and overall. After the visit, these garments should be placed in a plastic bag and eliminated in a dedicated waste container. After the visit, these garments should be placed in a plastic bag and eliminated in a dedicated waste container.
5. Ensuring compliance with Safety Measures during the visit
When entering clean areas, visitors should be aware of the need to disinfect their feet using the mats/footbaths provided, as well as disinfect their hands using an alcohol-based solution, before moving between different areas. Dedicated footwear should be available for each area.
6. Using the external fence as a protective barrier
It is important to keep gates locked and only open them after confirmation by telephone (e.g. by providing the number at the gate).
In case of unloading operations, the delivery vehicle should drive through a wheel disinfection bath. The driver should follow the garment change and cleaning measures implemented.
The pallet should be disinfected using a spray before being brought into the site.
Additional measures should also be implemented, e.g. in common areas, namely break rooms and canteens. DIN is available to provide assistance to livestock farms with the correct implementation of these measures, in order to ensure the safety of all teams and animals. This contingency plan allows us to ensure business continuity we need at this particular time.