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Many countries in Europa and beyond are using the Biocheck.ugent system: https://biocheckgent.com/en. It is a risk-based biosecurity scoring system providing an objective and quantitative evaluation of the level of biosecurity at your farm.
The systems exist for pigs, poultry, and cattle. Within the poultry sector, it is already some time available for conventional broilers and layers and within the scope of the NETPOULSAFE project, new extensions have been developed for Outdoor broilers and layers as well as for turkeys, ducks, and breeders.
The biocheck.ugent system is totally free for use and is available in many different languages: https://biocheckgent.com/en/surveys24 May 2022 at 3:47 pm in reply to: What are important features of biosecurity quantification systems ? #2404In my opinion, a good biosecurity scoring system should be:
1) quantitative so that it provides you with a quantitative score
2) risk-based: meaning that depending on the importance of the biosecurity measure you get higher or lower weights
3) allowing to benchmark so that farms can compare their outcome with other farms within and beyond your own country
4) easy to use
5) allows you to identify the strong and weak points of your farm24 May 2022 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Are there systems available to quantify biosecurity in animal production ? #2403Several systems were developed to make an inventory of biosecurity measures taken in animal production. They are often developed as checklists or as manuals either by independent advisory organizations, governments or as supporting material in the marketing of specific disease prevention products (e.g. vaccines). Many systems are developed from the point of view of the control of a specific disease.
At Ghent University, the Biocheck.UGent™ biosecurity scoring system was developed and is currently available for use in pig, poultry and cattle herds (www.biocheck.ugent.be). The Biocheck.UGent™ system is a risk-based scoring system to quantify the on-farm biosecurity. It does not starts from a specific disease but rather approaches biosecurity in general and focusses on those aspects that are common for the transmission of many different types of infectious diseases.
for more info see: https://biocheckgent.com/en/faq
When using the Biocheck.ugent scoring system you get both a report and a spider plot.
In the report you see for each subcategory of the survey, your own score, a worldwide (global) average and if available a national average. The average of all scores per subcategory within external and internal biosecurity, after taking their specific weight into account, gives a subtotal for external and internal biosecurity. The average of internal and external biosecurity results in a score for the total biosecurity.In the spider plots the letters in the different axis, correspond to the different subcategories within the survey. These letters are also in front of each subcategory in the table of the same report.
If you wish to know which questions were responsible for this score, you can easily look it up again in the paper/online version of the survey.more info can be found on https://biocheckgent.com/en/faq
The Biocheck.UGent biosecurity scoring system (www.biocheckgent.com) is a risk-based scoring system to quantify the on-farm biosecurity (Laanen et al., 2010; Gelaude et al., 2014; Ghent University, 2015). It does not start from a specific disease but rather approaches biosecurity in general and focuses on those aspects that are common for the transmission of many different types of infectious diseases.
The surveys are divided into several subcategories for internal and external biosecurity, and every subcategory consists of 2 to 19 questions. Most questions have two or three answer options. The answer to every question results in a score between zero (when this measure is not implemented at all or the least optimal answer is given) and one (when the measure is fully implemented). Depending on the importance of a particular biosecurity measure, the score per question is multiplied by a weight factor. The weights per score are determined based on the 5 principles of biosecurity.
Also, the subcategories have a specific weight factor equal to their relative importance for disease transmission as determined by a large group of specialists. As such, the Biocheck.UGent scoring system provides a risk-based score which takes into account the relative importance of all different biosecurity measures. The final score for both internal and external biosecurity can range from zero, indicating a total absence of the described biosecurity measures, to 100, indicating a full application of the described measures. The average of internal and external biosecurity results in a score for the total biosecurity. the report you obtain will also include a table with your results, a world average and a country average if there are more than 40 entries for your country.The Biocheck.ugent scoring system is totally free for use
Reference: Dewulf J., Postma M., Van Immerseel, F., Vanbeselaere, B., Luyckx, K., 2018. How to measure biosecurity and the hygiene status of farm? Biosecurity in Animal production and Veterinary Medicine, Chapter 5, Editors Dewulf J. and Van Immerseel F. (available on Amazon, Cabi and Acco)
Many countries in the world are using the Biocheck.ugent system: https://biocheckgent.com/en/worldwide
It is a risk-based biosecurity scoring tool that allows to measure and quantify the level of biosecurity in a standardized and objective manner. The biocheck.ugent methodology exists for pigs, poultry, and cattle production.
In poultry production, a biocheck scoring system has already existed for many years for conventional broiler and layer production. In the framework of the NETPOULSAFE project, new biochecks are developed for outdoor broiler and layer production as well as for turkeys, ducks and breeders. These scoring systems will appear very soon on teh biocheck.ugent website. The surveys are also available in multiple languages.There are several systems available to measure biosecurity (eg Biocheck.ugent) that can be used freely by anybody who wants to use it. So the system can be used equally by the farmers as well as the vets or other technicians. Yet my experience learns me that it is quite seldom that farmers use the system on their own without any support /help from a third party. In most cases, it is therefore a veterinarian or animal health technician who is doing the biosecurity scoring in collaboration with the farmer. In that way, the farmer has a partner to work together with and most importantly to discuss the outcome of the biosecurity evaluation together.
The advantage of measuring biosecurity is that you make biosecurity quantitative and tangible. by measuring biosecurity you can see how good the biosecurity on a farm is performing and where the weak and strong points are. In systems that allow benchmarking (comparison to other farms) you can also compare your results with the results of others which allows you even better to see how well you are performig.
Measuring biosecurity also gives you the opportunity to measure the improvements made. If there are some weak points in specific components of the biosecurity you can develop a plan to improve these and later on, by means of a new biosecurity audit, you can measure (and demonstrate in numbers) which improvements are made. -
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