Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop enrichment strategies
- Conduct research and consultation to determine appropriate strategies for particular animals and breeds
- Develop enrichment strategies against known animal behaviour and traits
- Incorporate animal welfare and WHS requirements into strategies as appropriate
- Develop organisational procedures for enrichment according to the profile of animals
- Align behavioural management budget allocation to short-term and longer-term strategies
- Implement enrichment programs
- Communicate enrichment strategies and procedures to staff, and provide training as necessary
- Adjust animal husbandry regimes to incorporate enrichment strategies
- Provide assistance to staff in implementing physical, social and food-related enrichment programs appropriate to the target species
- Supervise staff members providing enrichment to animals according to workplace policies and procedures
- Assess short-term management of animals exhibiting undesirable behaviour, and implement corrections
- Monitor and review enrichment strategies
- Monitor responses to implementation of enrichment strategy to determine their effects on animals, and document
- Investigate and evaluate adverse consequences to an enrichment strategy
- Collate enrichment program modification suggestions in consultation with staff, and implement where appropriate
- Update short-term and longer-term enrichment strategies in line with review findings, and document
- Align organisation behavioural management budget allocation to reviewed and updated strategies