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Exotic Disease Response (EDR) TrainingIRS – Surveillance Visits

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This session covers the IRS Surveillance activities performed during the following processes: • Organise Surveillance Field Teams• Schedule Surveillance Visits• Evaluate and Record Surveillance Visit• Receive Samples and Send to Lab• Evaluate Lab Results from Surveillance Visit

Training Agenda

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Session Outcomes At the end of this session you should be able to perform thefollowing IRS functions:• create a visit plan• create new surveillance teams• roster surveillance visits to a team• print visit documents• enter surveillance visit data• enter lab results• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance visits

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Create Visit Plan

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Create Visit Plan At the end of this topic you should be able to:

• create a visit plan

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Create Visit Plan You are now able to:

• create a visit plan

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Organise Surveillance Field Teams

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Organise Surveillance Field Teams At the end of this topic you should be able to:

• create a new surveillance team

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Organise Surveillance Field Teams You are now able to:

• create a new surveillance team

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Schedule Surveillance Visit

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Schedule Surveillance VisitAt the end of this topic you should be able to:

• describe the schedule surveillance visit process• assign surveillance visits to a team• print visit documents

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Assigning Visits – Concepts• Area of Interest = an area defined for the purpose of

incursion response activity (surveillance, organism management) comprised of a group of contiguous blocks

• Block = a useful spatial entity within an area of interest useful for assigning work to teams - an area may be approximately a days work for a team

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Area of Interest Blocks

• All blocks must be inside an Area of Interest

• Blocks must have no gaps

• Blocks can not overlap

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Assigning Visits – Concepts, cont

• Strata = an area without a permanent defined boundary, e.g.:– a swamp or pond that only appears after heavy

rain– a bush or forest habitat

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Strata

• Must be inside a block

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• Trap = a device to capture a wild animal or insect

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Traps

• Must be inside a block

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Assigning Visits – Concepts, cont

• Run = a series of short visits in a defined logical order that will be repeated

• Usually urban properties• Visit documentation will print in run order

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Assigning Visits – Concepts, cont

• Place = any building, conveyance, craft, land or structure, and the bed and waters of the sea and any canal, lake, pond, river, or stream

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Schedule Surveillance VisitYou are now able to:

• describe the schedule surveillance visit process• assign surveillance visits to a team• print visit documents

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Evaluate & Record Surveillance Visit

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Evaluate & Record Surveillance Visit

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At the end of this topic you should be able to:

• describe the Evaluate and Record Surveillance Visit process

• enter surveillance visit data into IRS• enter lab results• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance visits as

required

Evaluate & Record Surveillance Visit

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Surveillance tasks can be recorded at 3 levels:

• Individual = identified animal– e.g. cow number 26, official tag 293, angus

• Host = as defined for the response– e.g. 20 beef, 200 sheep, 3 pigs

• Target = all hosts on the property– e.g. 223 hosts for above example

Enter Surveillance Data - Concepts

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• Pre-printed with all Visit Plans with current tasks• Field Team Leader fills in:

– New UWO (Unwanted Organism) Status and Reason– Re-inspection date or ticks No Further Action

Enter Surveillance Data - Concepts, cont

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Receive Samples and Send to Lab

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Receive Samples and Send to Lab

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Receive Samples and Send to Lab

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Evaluate Lab Results-Surveillance Visit

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Evaluate Lab Results-Surveillance Visit

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You are now able to:

• describe the Evaluate and Record Surveillance Visit process

• enter surveillance visit data into IRS• enter lab results• cancel, confirm and update future surveillance visits as

required

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SummaryDuring this session we:

• created a visit plan• created new surveillance teams• rostered surveillance visits to a team• printed visit documents• entered surveillance visit data• entered lab results• cancelled, confirmed and updated future surveillance visits