1-CONTROL HAZARDS RELATED TO INTERVENERS

- Install a fence around the establishment to control access.

- Provide parking outside or inside the establishment, away from the stables.

- Provide a fenced area for storing roughage and concentrated feed.

- Provide a fenced area for temporary manure storage.

- Provide a wheel washing basin at the entrance to the establishment for vehicles (cars and transport trucks, bicycle).

- Clean and disinfect horse transport vehicles before use.

- Provide a footbath at the entrance to the stable for authorized personnel (farrier, rider, veterinarian, stable staff).

- Do not use the same tack equipment for all horses in the stable and, if necessary, disinfect the equipment before each use.

- Provide hand-washing points.

2-CONTROL HAZARDS RELATED TO INTRODUCTION

- Set up a quarantine area at least 50 meters from the stable to isolate newly arrived horses for 21 days after purchase to ensure they are disease-free.

- Upon returning from an event (sporting or otherwise), monitor the competition horse, taking its temperature twice a day for 3 days, and separate it from horses that have not left the facility.

- Pets (cats and dogs) not belonging in the establishment can be disease vectors.

3-CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS

- Avoid all contact with horses outside the facility during rides, equestrian events, or in pastures.

- Have a pest control plan.

- Have a plan for the removal of manure and all types of waste from the establishment.

4-CONTROL HAZARDS INSIDE THE STABLE

- Set up a feed storage area near the stables.

- Set up a temporary manure storage area more than 100 meters from the stables.

- Install a permanent fence to protect horses in the stable from contact with neighboring equines (horses, donkeys, mules).

- Provide each horse with its own water trough and feed trough, which must be cleaned daily.

- Vaccinate and deworm horses.

- Provide each horse with an accompanying document or passport.

- Provide each horse with an individual Health Record.

- Maintain a breeding register to track horse movements.

- Identify all horses with a microchip.

- Provide each horse with its own tack.

- Have a firefighting plan.

- Have a stable cleaning and disinfection plan.

5- MANAGING THE EMERGENCE OF DISEASE IN A STABLE

- Isolate the sick horse from other healthy horses, and a veterinarian must be invited to examine it.

- Limit staff movement and divide the stable into two zones: the infected zone and the healthy zone.

- Respect the principle of "forward movement" from the healthy zone to the infected zone.

- Start by grooming and cleaning healthy horses before sick horses.

- Turn healthy horses out into the paddock before sick horses.

- Wash your hands as frequently as possible before moving from one horse to another.

- Monitor the health of all healthy horses in the stable daily.

- Establish a twice-daily temperature check for all horses in the stable.

- Implement the cleaning and disinfection plan for the stable, tack equipment, and maintenance utensils.

- Immediately report to the veterinary services of the regional agricultural delegations any contagious animal disease subject to regulations and general control measures.