jerry foster - planning your response to on-farm emergencies

Planning Your Response toOn-Farm Emergencies

Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC

1Producer Education Session, Missouri Pork Expo 2013

Planning Your Response to On-Farm Emergencies

Why plan for emergencies?


Principle of responsible pork production\PQAAvert additional costs/fines/penaltiesAvoid passing the burden to

•Family members•Regulatory Agencies


Emergency Action Plan Resource


Emergency Action Plan | www.Pork.orghttp://www.pork.org/Resources/93/EmergencyActionPlan.aspx

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Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC



Most Likely and Common On-Farm Emergencies


•Massive Animal Mortality

•Manure Discharge/Spill

•Burned\Collapsed Building


Engagement Exercise


•This exercise involves competition

•There are prizes

•Decision of the Judge is final (even if it is

wrong)


Producer Engagement Exercise


Divide into two teamsRespond to two challenges


Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC



Its 9:30 on Thursday morning. It is 101 degrees with the high tempt predicted to be 105 and the heat index expected to be 110 to 112 by 2 pm.

You arrive at your 4800 space finisher and it is dead silent. No feed augers running. No fan noise . No pig noise.

You know what you will find when you walk in the door. But you have never seen anything like this. It is worse than you ever imagined.

You were supposed to start shipping next week. But now know you won’t because half of the pigs are dead all across the building and they are already starting to bloat.

What do you do now???





Challenge 1: Develop a plan for Responding to a Massive Animal Mortality Incident


Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC


Develop a plan for responding to a Massive Animal Mortality Incident




Challenge 1: Develop a plan for Responding to a Massive Animal Mortality Incident

List all the things you have to consider and decisions you have to make to properly dispose of an entire barn full of dead pigs


Challenge 1: Develop a plan for responding to a Massive Animal Mortality Incident


1. How long do you have to dispose of the carcasses? 2. Who do you have to notify?3. What options do you have for disposal?4. How will you remove carcasses and get them to disposal?





How long do you have to dispose of the carcasses?



How long do you have to dispose of the carcasses?

24 Hours Disposal of Dead Animals RSMO 269.020.1





Who do you have to notify?

Producer Engagment Exercise



Who do you have to notify?


First - Must be a live call. Leaving a message does not count!

Owner of the pigs?Neighbors?Services?

Second- State Veterinarian (573) 751-4259

In cases of disease or protracted disposal time

Third – DNREnvironmental Emergency Response Line 573-634-2436


Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC





What options do you have for disposal?






Rendering

Advantages•No mess left on farm•Quick•Less equipment





Rendering

Disadvantages•Availability•Cost•Biosecurity•Logistics





Composting





Burial• Least desirable• Most frequently used

RSMO 269.020.1


Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC



REQUEST FOR GEOHYDROLOGIC EVALUATION OF

LIQUID-WASTE TREATMENT FACILITY/SITEhttp://www.dnr.mo.gov/forms/780-1688-f.pdf


EVERY Farm Should have a Prearranged massive mortality disposal site

http://www.dnr.mo.gov/forms/780-1688-f.pdf










• Landfill• Inceration

Not likely

RSMO 269.020.1


How will you remove carcasses and get them to disposal?

• How long does it take to move each pig from barn to burial?

• Can you go out the sides of the barn?

• How will you load trucks?

• Can you start removal before trucks and excavators arrive?

• What equipment will you need inside the barn?

• Where will get enough labor to do the job in 24 hours?

• How many trucks will you need?

• What conditions apply to the trucks?

• If burying, what conditions apply?


How do we get pigs from barn to disposal



How will you remove carcasses and get them to disposal?


A B C


Jerry L. Foster

EHS Manager

Cargill Pork LLC



Prevention is a far better response than carrying out even the best of plans!

Massive Dead Animal Incidents


Regularly test your equipment, alarms and other disaster prevention devices.




What happens if you don’t carry out your dead animal obligations in an expedient manner ?

RSMO 269.020.1 0 …….The owner, custodian, or person who most recently possessed the animal shall reimburse the state veterinarian for the reasonable expense of disposing of the animal pursuant to this section.




Challenge 2:

Develop a plan for responding to a Manure Spill Resulting in a Discharge




Challenge 2: Develop a plan for responding to a

Manure Spill Resulting In A Discharge


The objectives of this exercise are to:

• Remind producers of their obligations in the event of an accident involving manure

• Introduce the concept of planning for such incidents

Challenge 2: Develop a plan for responding to a



When does a manure spill become a

discharge?



When does a manure spill become a discharge?

When you lose control of the manure

Enters waters of the state

Crosses a property boundary

Spilled on a public roadway


When does a manure spill become a discharge?

No minimum quantity established

Any detectable amount is a discharge

Visual

Analytical

Observed by interested party


What should be your first action after discovering a manure spill?



What should be your first action after discovering a manure spill?

Stop the flow of manure!

stop pump

plug leak

move mobile equipment to safe area



What next steps must you take? (after you have stopped the escaping flow from the manure handling system)

•Find out how far the manure has flowed

•Block the flow path ahead of the farthest reach of manure

•Begin recovering manure

place back into storage, or

land apply if it can be done safely



Who and When do you have to notify if you have a manure spill?



Verbal

DNR As soon as possible

Environmental Emergency Response Line 573-634-2436

Other Parties? (Integrator, landlord, neighbors)As soon as possible – no later that 24 hoursLive voice notification. Leaving a message doesn’t count



Written

•DNR - As directed by responders

•Other parties – Generally within three days



What we have discussed in these exercises just scratches the surface of the kinds of emergencies that can arise and the thing that should be considered. I hope you will take it seriously and develop or improve your farm’s emergency action plan.

Please do it for the good of our pork business, for the good of your farm and family and because it is the right thing to do.


The Cost of Ignoring Farm Safety

•Frequently, farm accidents are very expensive.

•Every accident has a root cause.

•We can usually figure out the root cause of an incident by asking what or why five times.

•The value of a few minutes of work at safety will pay back compounded value

This case study is a classic example.


Nature of the accident:

Manure spilled on a roadway.

1. Why? -- Tanker turned over

2. Why? -- Tanker started fishtailing.

3. Why? -- Tanker started going down hill faster than the tractor.

4. Why? -- Brakes “weren’t being used,”

5. Why? – Operator didn’t hook them up OR owner didn’t maintain brake system


From: [email protected]: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:52 AMTo: Jerry FosterSubject: RE: Tanker Repair Guesstimate

Jerry, this 7300 will require a new replacement tank, depending on what bolt on parts we can

salvage off old tank, a replacement tank with used parts could run $55-60,000 or more.

What does an incident like this cost?

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•Equipment repair

•Emergency response and clean up costs

•Fines, environmental and property damage (near miss in this case)

•Lost revenue

•Potential for employee issues



•My (conservative) guesstimate• $100,000 plus

•How long does it take to hook up brakes on a tanker?

•About 10 minutes•Net value of time = $10K per minute


The Bottom LineSafety may not pay, but it can prevent tremendous costs.

•It takes more time to clean up an accident than it takes to implement the safety practices that prevent it.

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