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Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
This guidance provides details on how to conduct and record a risk assessment, and how safety management systems can help to improve safety on fishing vessels.
Part of the 'Raising the bar' health and safety initiative to identify best practice, raise standards and improve supply chain engagement.
How to use a behaviour change techniques review to evaluate your digital health product.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Guidance on the handling of slurry and manure to help reduce the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Find out how to manage a customs warehouse, handle goods, and process, repair and move goods.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
Find out how to move your goods from inward processing into free circulation, another special procedure or re-export.
Guidance on managing and using bed rails safely.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
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