New Zealand Emergency Response Capability

AsureQuality is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to respond to livestock, horticultural, forestry, apicultural, GMO and marine biosecurity emergencies. We tap into and train staff and resources from across the company to deliver a proven team of dedicated biosecurity professionals who now number more than 650 New Zealand-wide.

In the case of a highly contagious exotic diseases like foot and mouth disease, AsureQuality is equipped to dispatch an initial investigating Veterinarian within half an hour of notification, file a detailed report 4.5 hours later, establish a National Co-ordination Centre anywhere in New Zealand within 15 hours and have all necessary Field Response staff mobilised 24 hours after the alarm is raised.

Emergency Biosecurity Response Services Include:

• Headquarters management, IT, communications, supplies
• Technical services - pest identification, in-field testing
• Administration and financial management
• Mapping capabilities and database management - geospatial services
• Surveying
• Tracing and movement control services
• Field resource management - on-farm containment, slaughter and disposal teams
• Public relations services - media, industry, affected parties, government
• Containment and control of plant and animal pests and diseases

Development and Implementation of Response Systems

We can provide a wide range of support to assist customers in establishing emergency response services including:

• Risk assessment
• Design of response systems
• Documentation (and maintenance) of response procedures and instructions
• Development of training programmes for response personnel
• Delivery of training for response personnel
• Auditing of response systems performance and capability
• Development and operation of database systems