Animal Welfare Standards - Australian Meat Industry Council

AUDIT CHECKLIST
Principle
Reference
P1.5 Standard operating
procedures are developed
and implemented for
livestock management tasks
P1.6 Are sufficient numbers of
competent personnel are
available or on-call to
conduct designated tasks?
P1.7 Do contractual
arrangements with
suppliers include provisions
for animal welfare?
Is feedback provided to
suppliers on any adverse
outcomes?
P2.1 Are facilities clean and in
good working order?
P2.2 Are facilities free from
protrusions and other
objects that can cause injury?
P2.4 Is flooring designed to
minimise slipping, falling
and injury?
P2.5 Do lairage holding
pens provide sufficient
space for the number of
livestock expected to be
held at any one time?
P2.6 Are facilities are available
to care for, or to segregate
weak, ill or injured animals?
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Principle Target
Standard Operating Procedures are available that detail actions for:
• delays in slaughter
• equipment breakdown and power failure
• extremes of weather;
• out of hours for the management of livestock
• industrial disputes
Current contact details of ‘on-call’ personnel are made available to
livestock suppliers and transport operators for out of hours contact.
Contractual arrangements with livestock suppliers detail:
• specifications for the expected fitness of livestock arriving at the
establishment
• the maximum time(s) off feed and water and
• expectations in relation to livestock handling practices
Facilities are in good working order.
Livestock facilities are included in existing maintenance logs.
Facilities are free from any sharp protrusions that could cause injury
to livestock.
Lairage area flooring is kept clean to minimise livestock slipping or
falling.
Internal audit includes measuring slips and falls. Score 100 animals
from the crowd pen, lead-up race and stunning box (measure a % of
100 animals in each section) and mark X = no slipping or falling,
F = fell, S = slip.
No more than 3% of animals are observed to be slipping (for 100
animals), otherwise corrective action is taken.
No more than 1% of animals are observed to fall (body touches
floor), otherwise corrective action is taken.
Livestock are penned with space to move freely and access water.
Livestock are not held constantly (unless moving through the facility)
in raceways.
Observation of hospital pens or similar.
Yes
No
N/A
INDUSTRY ANIMAL WELFARE STANDARDS