Biosecurity Requirements Plan
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Biosecurity Requirements Plan Document No.:- BAQ-Biosecurity -03 PURPOSE The purpose of this Biosecurity Management Plan is to document Boral Asphalt’s commitment to ensuring all material, equipment and packaging that enters Norfolk Island for the Airport Upgrade Project is free of any unwanted pest, pathogen or exotic species The aim is to minimise the risk: (a) Into Norfolk Island on establishment for the project. (b) Into Australia after demobilisation. This plan will apply to all subcontractors, suppliers and shippers providing goods or services to Boral for the Airport Upgrade Project. Biosecurity Requirements Plan Document No.:- BAQ-Biosecurity -03 IMPORT ELEMENTS COMMENT QUARANTINE ACTION RESPONSIBILITY EXTERNAL TERRITORIES RECORDS Bitumen - Polymer ▪ Bitumen – polymer ▪ Bitumen is ▪ No treatment required. Inspect ▪ Puma / Project Manager TBA ▪ Inspection record. Modified modified manufactured by a for contamination and clean. (Will be filled hot at high temperature 1750 C degrees process into reheatable shipping tank containers. ▪ Puma / Project Manager ▪ Fumigation Certificate ▪ Standard Container will be ▪ Shipping containers ▪ No treatment required prior to and inspection record. international filled at Puma in filling. Spray with insecticide shipping containers. Brisbane over a 3 (deltamethrane) prior to loading. month period prior Insect to shipping. contamination is possible during storage. Sand and ▪ Sand ▪ Dredged marine ▪ Refer Appendix 1 for details of ▪ Quarry Source Manager/Project ▪ Sample test records. Aggregates sand, free of soil or sand origin and processing Manager delivery dockets, (Refer Appendix 1 organic material shipping documentation for details of supply sources). ▪ Sample test records. ▪ Aggregate ▪ Refer Appendix 1 for details of ▪ Quarry Source Manager/Project ▪ Crushed to size aggregate origin and processing Manager delivery dockets, from clean, blasted shipping documentation rock spalls . Biosecurity Requirements Plan Document No.:- BAQ-Biosecurity -03 Company :- Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Ltd Work Process :- Biosecurity Preparation Client :- Norfolk Island Regional Council Location of Works :- Norfolk Island Airport Contract No.:- Subcontractor :- n/a Prepared by :- Reviewed & approved by :- Date :- 18-08-2019 (rev. 1) IMPORT ELEMENTS COMMENT QUARANTINE ACTION RESPONSIBILITY EXTERNAL TERRITORIES RECORDS Mobile Asphalt ▪ Various trailer units ▪ Likely ▪ Vacuum and wash control room. ▪ Contracted approved cleaning Biosecurity inspection at ▪ Inspection records & Plant including drier, cold contamination of Vacuum and wash enclosed tool company/ Project Manager cleaning company photographs. (Sourced from feed bins, bag- soil, possible boxes or store cabinets and prior worksite in house, lime silo, hot insects or pests ensure contents are clean. High Brisbane. To be storage bins, ▪ Refer Appendix 2 pressure wash external areas, cleaned to control room, for detailed engine compartments, under- biosecurity generator, bitumen body and wheel arches. Clean in information standard prior to tank, fuel storage & around belts, conveyors, shipment.) Ship ex tank. screens, bins, the drum, cable Hemmant, trays, pipework, electric motors Brisbane. and safety guards. Arrange biosecurity inspection at cleaning company prior to staging for shipping. Company :- Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Ltd Work Process :- Biosecurity Preparation Client :- Norfolk Island Regional Council Location of Works :- Norfolk Island Airport Contract No.:- Subcontractor :- n/a Prepared by :- Reviewed & approved by :- Date :- 18-08-2019 (rev. 1) IMPORT ELEMENTS COMMENT QUARANTINE ACTION RESPONSIBILITY EXTERNAL TERRITORIES RECORDS Mobile ▪ Trucks, pavers, ▪ Likely ▪ Vacuum and wash ▪ Contracted approved cleaning Biosecurity inspection at ▪ Inspection records & Construction Plant rollers, profiler, contamination of driver/operator cab. Vacuum and company/ Project Manager cleaning company photographs. (Used equipment suction broom, soil, possible wash enclosed tool boxes or sourced from tractor broom, front insects or pests store cabinets and ensure worksites near end loader& fork lift. ▪ Refer Appendix 2 contents are clean. High Brisbane. To be for detailed pressure wash external areas, cleaned to information engine compartment, under- biosecurity body and wheel arches or track standard prior to guides. Clean vehicle shipment.) Ship ex attachments. Arrange Hemmant, quarantine inspection prior to Brisbane. loading. Stores and Spare ▪ Stores and Spare ▪ New stores and ▪ No treatment required. Inspect ▪ Project Supervisor/ Project ▪ Inspection Records & Parts (Sourced Parts (new) spare parts will be for contamination and clean. Manager Photographs from various preferred. Fumigate once packed in suppliers. Mainly Consumable stores standard shipping containers. new equipment but and spares will be some second new. Only new hand. Shipment ex packaging will be Hemmant, used. Brisbane) ▪ Inspect and clean stores. ▪ Stores and Spare ▪ Used stores or parts ▪ Project Supervisor/ Project ▪ Inspection Records & Repackage if required. Fumigate Parts (used) will generally be Manager Photographs reconditioned. Used once packed in standard stores may contain shipping containers. insects or dust. Appendix 1 Biosecurity Controls for Sand & Aggregate to be Shipped to Norfolk Island This Appendix covers: 1. General Overview 2. Table of process, risk, inspection and control measures 3. Process details for each product source 3.1 Lytton marine sand 3.2 West Burleigh Quarry crusher dust and 32 mm 3.3 Ormeau Quarry 7mm, 10mm, 14 mm and 20 mm 4. Transport from source to pre-shipping storage 5. Storage prior to shipping 6. Fumigation of Aggregate and Sand in the Ship’s Holds. 7. Sampling and testing for phytophthora 8. Shipping 9. Unloading at Norfolk Island 10. Airport storage 11. Asphalt for Local roads 12. Attachments A. Risk Considerations and Controls for the Unloading and Transport of Aggregate and Sand on Norfolk Island B. Baseline Phytophthora Cinnanomi Test Reports C. QDAF Wide Area Phytophthora Cinnanomi Test Reports ’ D. SOP for fumigation of ship s hold 1 General Overview Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Limited has been contracted to upgrade the runway on Norfolk Island Airport. This will primarily involve installing approximately 30,000 tonne of asphalt over the existing runway pavements. The asphalt is made up of a combination of bitumen, sand and graded rock aggregates. There is no sand available on the island, and while there is an existing quarry, at Cascade, it has not need used for 14 years. The Cascade Quarry cannot provide the aggregate required for a number of reasons including, but not limited to: • There are no current approvals for extractive industry nor a Development Approval. An approval could take several years. • An on island drilling investigation revealed there is not sufficient suitable accessible rock for the Airport Project requirements. • Part of the existing quarry is on at least 2 lots of private property on which private dwellings have been built. It is planned to import approximately 42,000 tonne of aggregate from South east Queensland in Australia to Norfolk Island for the asphalt, concrete and ancillary requirements. It is recognised that Norfolk Island is a unique habitat of flora and fauna and that it is necessary to manage all stages of the importation of sand and aggregate to minimize the risk of contamination with unwanted pathogens. For technical reasons in the asphalt design, crusher dust will be sourced from Boral’s West Burleigh quarry while 7 mm, 10 mm and 14 mm size aggregate will be sourced from Boral’s Ormeau Quarry. The asphalt mix design would normally incorporate a washed pit sand, but to reduce biosecurity risk, a marine sand from Moreton Bay has been used in this mix design. The crusher dust from West Burleigh is needed to compliment the properties of the marine sand. For the concrete design, 32mm size aggregate from West Burleigh quarry and 20 mm size aggregate from Ormeau quarry are also required. The process for getting the aggregate and sand from Brisbane to Norfolk Island will involve a number of elements. In outline, this includes transporting the sand and aggregate to a loading facility in Brisbane, loading a bulk ship, shipping to Norfolk Island in a bulk ship, transferring product from the bulk ship to a DO/DO barge at Norfolk island, landing the barge at a purpose built rock groyne, loading transport trucks on the barge and trucking the product to the construction site at the airport. The details of these elements along with the relevant biosecurity controls are covered in the following sections. 2 Table of process, risk, inspection and control measures Quarry Products Process Risk Control Measures Inspection Drill & Blast Contamination All overburden removed Check prior to blasting. with soil prior to blasting to ensure only clean rock. Selective loading of blast Separation of unsuitable rock to ensure only sound by excavator/loader rock is loaded for crushing. operator Haul to crusher Contamination in Dedicated vehicles used Inspect truck body at dump truck body. from pit face to crusher start of shift Crushing and Contamination At Ormeau, -40 mm Scalping is a fixed part screening with soil and material is scalped prior to of the process organic matter. crushing to remove smaller secondary material. Scalping is not required at West Burleigh as using material from deep within the rock formation. Haul to stockpile Contamination in Dedicated vehicles used Inspect for wind-blown truck body. from