Managing Above the Bar

Dr. Mike SiemensBeef Program Development Dir.

Cargill Meat Solutions

2007 Animal Care and Handling Conference

What is the Bar ???&

How Do We Stay Above It ???

How do you know where you are at on the Bar ?

What tools do you have at your disposal that can help

you find out where you are at on the bar ?

Effective Stunning – 95% successful stuns

Insensibility – 100% Insensible on the rail

Slips – 3% or less actual slips

Falls – 1% or less actual falls

Vocalization – 3% or less cattle vocalizing

Electric Prod Use – 25% or less prod use

No Willful Acts of Abuse

Access to Water

The Actual Bar Measurements

What can you do to help ensure that you maintain or

achieve performance excellence ?

Balanced ScorecardManagement System

Developed in the early 1990’s by Harvard Business School

Professors Kaplan & Norton

BSS is a management system (not only a measurement system).

Enables organizations to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action.

Provides feedback around both the internal business processes and external outcomes.

Transforms strategic planning from an academic exercise into the decision center of an enterprise.

The Balanced Scorecard and Measurement-Based Management

BSS builds on some key concepts of previous management ideas:

Total Quality Management (TQM)Customer-defined qualityContinuous improvementEmployee empowermentMeasurement-based management and feedback.

BSS views the organization from four perspectives:

•The Learning and Growth Perspective•The Business Process Perspective•The Customer Perspective•The Financial Perspective

Outcome Metrics

You can't improve what you can't measure.

Metrics must be developed based on the priorities of the strategic plan

Processes are then designed to collect information relevant to these metrics

Decision makers examine the outcomes and provide feedback for improvement.

Management by Fact

The goal of making measurements is to permit managers to see the process more clearly.

Progressive businesses depend upon measurement and analysis of performance.

Measurements must derive from the company's strategy and provide critical data and information about key processes, outputs and results.

Balanced Score Card

The Learning and Growth Perspective

The Learning and Growth Perspective

This perspective includes:

Employee trainingCorporate cultural attitudesIndividual and corporate self-improvement.

In a knowledge-worker organization, people -- the only repository of knowledge -- are the main resource.

Cargill Meat Solutions

Training and Guideline Materials for the Self-

Improvement of the Beef Plant

Animal Care and

Handling Manual BEEF

Animal Handling and Care Manual Table of Contents

Section 1 – Program Statement Section 2 – Animal Handling Principles

• Basic Animal Handling Guidelines • Flight Zone Principles of Livestock • Proper use of Animal Handling Devices • Diagram of Prohibited Areas of an Animal • Escaped Animal Procedures

Section 3 - Organizational Charts

• Organizational Chart – Yards • Organizational Chart – Harvest

Section 4 – Compromised Animal Handling

• Normal Animal Flow Chart • Non-Ambulatory Animal Flow Chart • Dead Animal Flow Chart • Downer Animal Handling Policy • Non-Ambulatory and Dead Animal Disposition Form • CFIA Compromised Animal Handling Policy • McDonalds Non-Ambulatory Animal Handling Policy • Euthanasia Procedures • Denaturing Locations

Section 5 – Training Materials

• Humane Treatment of Animals – Cargill Meat Solutions – Powerpoint presentation

• Temple Grandin Power Point Presentation • Animal Handling in Meat Plants – Temple Grandin, Video • Cattle Handling and Stunning Module for Beef Processing

Plants – Cargill Meat Solutions Training Video • Animal Handling Test • Animal Handler Acknowledgement Sheet • Certificate of Completion for Humane Handler Training

Section 6 – Animal Handling References and Government Regulations

• Recommended Animal Handling Guidelines and Audit Guide 2005 Edition – Written by Temple Grandin, Published by AMI.

• Humane Slaughter Act 1978 – USDA • FSIS Directive 6900.1 Revision 1 • FSIS Directive 6900.2 • CFIA Meat Hygiene Manual of Procedures – Chapter 12 in

progress • OIE Animal Welfare Standards – in progress

Section 7 – Transportation

• Cattle Handling and Transport – Cargill Meat Solutions and Kansas State University, Video

• Master Cattle Transporter Guide – NCBA, Cargill Meat Solutions, Temple Grandin and others, Video

• Animal Transportation Guideline – Cargill Meat Solutions

Cattle Handling Principles to Reduce Stress on ranches and feedlots (VHS &

DVD)New DVD version of this video contains

an additional Spanish video on animal handling.

Animal Handling in Meat Plants(VHS & DVD)

New cattle DVD contains 6 complete programs on handling, stunning, animal welfare auditing in meat plants, and religious slaughter.

Temple Grandin’sWeb Site www.grandin.com

Humane Treatment of Animals

Employee TrainingCargill Meat Solutions

Training Purpose

The Humane Treatment of Animals Training is designed to provide awareness to the problem of the inhumane treatment of animals in the workplace and the information you need avoid this type of problem.

Score:_____________ Name:______KEY!!____________

Date:_____________________

Animal Handling and Stunning Test Directions: The following test will be given immediately following the video. These questions have come straight from the video. Please read the question and mark the one best answer. To become certified in animal handling, you will have to pass this test with a 90% or better (which means you can only miss 1)

1. Cattle are sensitive to which of the following: a. Smell b. Movement c. Sound d. All the above

2. Where is the point of balance located at on the animal? a. Behind the animal b. Head area c. Shoulder d. Flank

3. T / F If the animal is a ‘downer’ on the truck and is inspected by a USDA inspector, can the animal still be slaughtered be entering the side door if the USDA found nothing wrong?

4. T / F Only 10% of the animals need to be inspected before slaughter? 5. The best way to move cattle correctly is to:

a. Run them b. Calmly and at a walk c. Yelling and Screaming d. A and C are correct

6. When entering the holding pen of cattle, one should:

a. Walk right up the middle of the pen b. Walk up one side of the pen c. Doesn’t matter where you go as long as the cattle get out fast.

CERTIFICATE OF TRAINING

RECOGNIZES AND CONGRATULATES

Your Name

For participating in Cargill Meat Solutions training session for Proper Animal Handling Practices And Principles to Reduce Stress in Livestock

Today’s date

Cargill Meat Solutions

Technical Services

Sensitive Areas THE ELECTRIC PROD OR ANY OTHER ANIMAL HANDLING DEVICE MUST NEVER BE APPLIED

TO THE FACE, ANUS OR GENITAL AREAS.

Place line on crown of head

5 4 3 2 1

Centerline of head

Nose

Animal Transportation Guidelines

QuestionsContact Information:

Mike Siemens, Ph.D. 151 N. Main StreetWichita, KS 67202mike_siemens @ cargill.com316-291-2114