New Technologies for Pork Producers - Video Monitoring and Web-Based Learning - Mr. Earl Dodson, K·Coe Isom, from the 2018 Missouri Pork Expo, February 6-7, 2018, Columbia, MO, USA. More presentations at http://www.swinecast.com/2018-missouri-pork-expo

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“New Technologies for Pork
Producers
Video Monitoring and Web-
Based Learning”
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Video Monitoring & Web-based Learning
Key components in addressing Animal Welfare and
Worker Safety in your operation
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Web-based
Training

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Why is Employee Training Important?
• Key observation as a result of Animal Welfare
Investigative Audits
• Lack of proper training is directly related to animal care
and handling issues
• Lack of proper training is directly related to worker safety
issues
Training isn’t just important to any company,
it is vital.
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Where Do Current Trainings Fall Short
• Trying to cram all of your company’s required training
into a three-day period at the end of the calendar year
• A new hire must hit the ground running so-to-speak and
does not get much handholding on the part of the
employer
– Many employers give new employees at most a few days to
become acclimated with them and most of that time involves
processing employment paperwork for the new worker
– Most training is “here is how you do it, I’ll check back with you in a
few days”
• New hires can begin each month with training only once
a year
• Lack of time
• Lack of training material
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Web-based Training
• Is anywhere, any-time instruction
delivered over the Internet to browser-
equipped learners
• There are two primary models of Web-
based instruction:
– Instructor-facilitated
– Self-directed, self-paced
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Employee
Employee
Employee
Insturctor

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Benefits of Web-based Employee Training
• Improved employee performance –
– Improves ability to perform their job
– A greater understanding of their
responsibilities
– Enhance their overall performance
• Improved employee satisfaction and
morale
– Shows employees that they are valued
– Creates a supportive workplace
• Addresses weaknesses
– Allows you to strengthen those skills that
each employee needs to improve
– Helps reduce any weak links within the
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Benefits of Web-based Employee Training
• Consistency
– Particularly relevant for the company’s basic
policies and procedures
– All employees need to be aware of the
expectations and procedures within the
company
• Enhances the farms reputation and
profile
– Helps to develop your employer brand
– Makes a company more attractive to
potential new markets
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Do all employees get trained in the areas in
which they work?
Pork Animal Welfare
• Swine-Animal Behavior
⁻ Understanding Factors that Affect Pig
Behavior
• Swine-Animal Behavior:
⁻ Understanding Pigs Herding Behavior
• Swine - Animal Handling
• Swine - Animal Well-Being: General
Animal Observations
• Swine - Biosecurity
• Swine - Load Out
• Swine - On-Farm Food Safety
• Preparing for the Common Swine
Industry Audit
• PQA Plus
Worker Safety
• PTO Safety
• Safe Tractor Operation- Batteries and
Hydraulic Systems Safety
• Safe Tractor Operation- Farm Tractor
Front End Loader Safety
• Safe Tractor Operation- General
Tractor Safety
• Safe Tractor Operation- Farm Tractor
Rollovers, Overturns and Falls
• Skid Steer Safety
• Manure Storage Facilities- Closed
Manure Storage
• Manure Storage Facilities- Open
Manure Storage
• Ladder Safety
• Slips, Trips and Falls
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Web-based Training
• Is the effective combination of online learning
and classroom learning followed up with on-
the-job instruction
• This approach allows an employer to train
more people on a timely basis
• Web Based Training classes are 20 minutes or
less. This makes it much more cost-effective
and allows for greater process consistency
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Web-based Training
• TRAIN
– Instructor-Facilitated
– Self-Directed
– Before work, during lunch hour, after work
– Bilingual presentations
• TEST
– Bilingual
– Auditory option
– Provides an immediate record
• TRACK
– Reminds when employee needs retrained
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Employee
Employee
Instructor

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An investment in a web-based training
program is an investment in your future
Is that an investment you’re willing to make
This is a situation where the benefits can far
outweigh the costs
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Video
Monitoring

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What’s ACTUALLY Happening
• Everyone wants animals taken
care of well
• We all think we do this perfectly
• What management wants does
not always happen at the
caretaker level
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What is Video Monitoring?
• Placing cameras in key areas on a site to
allow remote observations by a 3rd party
viewing live or recorded video on a PC or
laptop
• To facilitate remote viewing, the 3rd party
uses the IP address of your network and a
password to view on-line like you would a
website—thus no video is kept on the 3rd
party site
• Confidential, secure, customizable system
that includes state-of-the-art camera
networks and 24/7/365 monitoring services
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Value of Remote Video Monitoring
• Delivers real time data on animal handling and care,
employee performance, and security on an ongoing
basis.
• Provides an ongoing, objective system of monitoring the
everyday humane handling practices — versus an
annual or semi-annual audit.
• Affords transparency across the entire operation.
• Alerts management to needed training and
improvements.
• Reduces risk for everyone in the chain from the
producer to the branded food company.
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Key Risk Areas Monitored
• Monitor critical control points of a farms
operations, enabling management to
better manage and minimize risk.
– Farrowing Rooms—all or random sample
– Gestation
– Alleys to and from Farrowing and Gestation
– Loading and Unloading and alleys to and
from load-out
• Pigs
• Sows & Boars
– Hospital Pen if applicable
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What is Monitored?
• Monitoring is customized and based
on the Farms SOP’s and Protocols
– Are your SOP’s and Protocols being
followed pertaining to:
• Animal Welfare
• Employee Safety
• Production Efficiency
• Site Security
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How Does This Help You?
– Provides Transparency by a 3rd Party for Animal
Welfare, Safety, Efficiency and Security every day of the
year
• Proves that your animals are being cared for correctly
• Demonstrates compliance with industry standards
• Can be used to defend your operation
• Ensures your Protocols and SOP’s are being followed
• Ensures employees are following safety protocols
• Identifies areas of safety concern
• Verifies only authorized individuals gain access to your
property
• Offers opportunity for training
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What are the Deliverables?
• Notification immediately of egregious acts of animal
abuse so you can fix the problem
– Description
– Location and time
– Identification of individual if possible
• Notifications of safety violations
• Weekly site reports
• Quarterly and yearly summaries
• Feedback on processes, practices and protocols
• Suggested training
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Does it Work?

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3rd Party Training
3rd Party Training
Client—6 months of Video Monitoring Data
Management
Change
Does it Work?
Video Monitoring--Management Change--Training

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• At a recent Marketing Summit when a panel of
food company and quick serve restaurant
representatives were asked:
• What single issue will shape the future of the
food industry?
• Responses were uniform in identifying meat
industry transparency, or lack thereof, as the key
matter
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Questions
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