Reducing the Risk from People and Equipment

• Prevent unnecessary access and visitors to your farmyard.
• Ensure all visitors wear clean boots and clothing.
• Provide a disinfectant footbath at the entrance to your farmyard and ensure it is replenished regularly with a disinfectant approved by DAERA to kill TB.
• When disinfectant is used ensure it is made up at the correct dilution.
• Ensure only clean vehicles and equipment enter your premises and minimise use of shared equipment.
• Check equipment brought by visiting contractors (e.g. slurry spreaders, hoof paring crushes and livestock trailers) is clean before entry.
• Minimise your own contact with other stock and change clothing and footwear after visiting markets and other farms.

Remember putting in place any risk reduction is always better than doing nothing!