2019-11-12 - P&E Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Draft Noosa Biosecurity Plan 2020

5.3     Codes of Practice
Biosecurity management actions are guided by the following Codes of Practice, guidelines and
operating procedures.

 Organisation                     Website                           Resources
 Australian Pesticides and        https://apvma.gov.au              Use of herbicides
 Veterinary Medicines Authority
 (APVMA)
 PestSmart                        http://www.pestsmart.org.au/a     Standard operating
                                  nimal-welfare/humane-codes/       procedures
 Australian Government            https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/abo      Australian code for the care
                                  ut-us/publications/australian-    and use of animals for
                                  code-care-and-use-animals-        scientific purposes
                                  scientific-purposes

 Safe Work Australia              https://www.safeworkaustralia.    Material Safety data Sheets
                                  gov.au/sds
 DAF invasive species fact        https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/bu     Fact sheets
 sheets and manuals               siness-priorities/biosecurity
 Australian Government            https://www.environment.gov.      Management of Weeds of
                                  au/biodiversity/invasive/weeds    National significance (WONS)
                                  /management/index.html

Table 8 Biosecurity Code of Practice, guidelines, fact sheets and operating procedure


6. Information systems
6.1     Historic data and information
To better understand the distribution an abundance of invasive species across the shire previous
pest surveys and customer request data and information has been loaded onto a spatial mapping
layer. This provides a visualisation of invasive species presence across the shire and helps identify
areas that require follow up management actions for staff.




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