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Sea Container Risk Management Policy
Tim ChapmanExecutive Manager
Quarantine Operations DivisionBiosecurity Services Group
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In the beginning …
• UK 2001 outbreak of foot & mouth disease
• Risk uncertainty
• Mandatory intervention on all cargo from 2002 – Increased Quarantine Intervention
• External inspection of every arriving sea container
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Risks – soil & plant material
Shipping container contamination
• Roof
• Sides
• Doors
• Twist locks
• Underside
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Risks - Insects
Insect ‘hitch-hikers’
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Risks - Snails
Laying eggs in crevices
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External Container Inspection Regime 2002-09
• Approx 2 million containers per annum
• 24hr / 7 day inspections at ports
• High labour costs
• Routine washing referral
• Supply chain delays
• Inflexible
• Limited analysis
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Policy direction
“ Australia’s biosecurity system will be most effective if resources are targeted to those areas of greatest return from a risk management perspective ”
One Biosecurity: A Working Partnership
Beale et al 2008
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Analysis
• Only 296 containers with confirmed exotic specimens - equal to 1 on 17,600 containers on low risk pathways
• No evidence of foot & mouth disease pathway
• Increasing cleanliness
• Reduction in detections
• High degree of awareness
• High rate of compliance
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Consultation
• Biosecurity Australia – technical advice
• ABARES – data
• Regional AQIS staff – operations
• Interest groups – rural
• AQIS/Industry Cargo Consultative Committee – logistics and industry impact
• Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA) – modelling and validation
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Objectives
• Risk-based decision-making
• Biosecurity continuum
• Flexibility - adaptation
• New analytics
• Continuous review
• Enhanced reporting
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Methodology
• AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 to estimate current levels of risk and predict effects of strategies
• Incremental introduction to stakeholders
• Enabling stakeholders to amend practices and assume new responsibilities, supported by information and training packages
• Improved operational effectiveness throughout transition period
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Strategies - Phase I
Implemented nationally 1 July 2010
• mandatory intervention (ECIR) phased out for low risk pathways
• 100% continued intervention on higher risk pathways including rural consignments
• 100% inspection of (43) Country Action List
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Strategies - Phase II
• Offshore capacity building
- New Zealand
- Treatment initiatives
• Industry co-regulation
• Rewards for compliance
• More detailed pathway analysis
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SCRMP Summary
• Introduces risk management
• Utilises data, science, logistics & communication across complex high value supply chain
• Eliminates unnecessary regulatory barriers
• Identifies & rewards compliance
• Enables resources to focus on significant and emerging biosecurity risks
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Questions …