Audit, action plan and advice for your welfare approach
The audit assesses your practices, their effects on the animals and their regulatory compliance, based on your documents and an on-site visit. You receive a report and a plan of preventive and corrective actions, discussed with your team.
The audit, a review of your welfare approach
What the audit assesses
The audit covers the actions in place and their results:
- The relevance of actions
Welfare strategy, enrichment programme, training, team organisation, facilities.
- Their effects on the animals
The welfare of the animals currently at the facility.
- Fit with your objectives
What the actions deliver in relation to what you are aiming for.
- Compliance of practices
With regard to regulatory requirements.
How the audit works
The audit combines a document review, a visit to the facility and a debrief with the team:
- Review the documents
Procedures, animal welfare plan and other documents you provide.
- Visit the facility
Meet the teams, see the animals and their facilities, check how procedures are applied.
- Analyse and assess practices
Relevance of the welfare plan to current activities, effectiveness of the measures in place, regulatory compliance.
- Present the report
Discuss the findings with the team, then draw up a plan of preventive and corrective actions.
An action plan built from the audit
The action plan turns the audit results into targeted actions, to improve animal management and welfare while building the teams' skills:
Prioritising actions
Team training, field practices, facilities, group management, management tools and procedures.
Expected objectives
What each selected action should achieve.
Planning
The schedule of actions and their follow-up.
Everyone's role
Welfare is the whole team's responsibility, but everyone has a specific role in it. The plan defines or restates these roles, with decision trees.
Advice and follow-up after the audit
After the audit, advice and follow-up extend the action plan, alongside the facility's veterinary monitoring:
- Animal follow-up
Support on managing social groups and on the issues identified.
- Good day-to-day practice
Consolidating the team's skills in managing the animals.
- Monitoring and shared experience
Literature monitoring, shared experience, connecting you with other facilities.
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