Provender Nurseries pride itself on sustain tight procedures in billet for managing incoming stock and plant health and to reflect this Provender Nurseries are changing their Nursery managers persona to encompass biosecurity procedures now in place through the diligence .
Stuart
Stuart Tickner has been the Nursery Manager at Provender Nurseries for six years and has seen the occupation role change enormously in that time due to change in biosecurity procedures , associated paperwork and deal APHA inspection on site . There is a lot of laborious work necessitate in keeping Provender Nurseries ailment with APHA guidelines as Stuart manage the biosecurity onsite and at all developing of their new acquired offsite raise facilities that require paperwork for plant procurement and traceability .
work tight with APHA and other advisory body , biosecurity used to take up a few time of day a workweek 3 eld ago it now takes up a few hours of Stuart ’s fourth dimension on a casual basis . Working in conjunction with Provender Nurseries purchasing squad , Stuart also direct the nursery team to recognize pest and diseases .
Whenever Provender Nurseries leverage plants that are on the EU Tree Notification listing APHA are apprize via their eDomero on-line portal . Stuart then accompanies the APHA representative on land site once the notifiable plants get in . Plants that are on the EU Tree Notification tilt can be inspected on the baby’s room or in their last planting destination in customers gardens .
Stuart has also devised a questionnaire for biosecurity issues that was sent out to all of Provender Nurseries supplier in Europe back in 2017 . Suppliers that did not meet the essential set out in the questionnaire for applicable plant bloodline result in Provender Nurseries sourcing those lines elsewhere where suppliers were compliant . The questionnaire is also train along by the purchasing squad when they visit their suppliers abroad and used as a checklist .
Staff at Provender Nurseries are preserve up to date with all aspects of biosecurity by folder in each billet that prove priceless to the gross sales team when quoting and also by on - situation training in conjunction with APHA once a year for all staff .
Richard McKenna states ‘ cause Stuart in our team and his knowledge of biosecurity give Provender Nurseries confidence in our purchasing responsibly and being able to offer our customers clean , inspected stock . With Brexit ahead of us and the as yet on the fence changes in lawmaking that may get up we anticipate more challenges in damage of the amount of paperwork and amount of inspections we may look as a result . With Stuart aboard and training more of our nursery faculty to handle APHA inspection and paperwork tracing we have faith that we can keep to provide plants for our customers in a creditworthy manner . ’
Stuart ’s job role has been alter to reflect his work towards biosecurity at Provender Nurseries and newly acquired yield situation to Nursery Production & Biosecurity Manager .
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