Proposed Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines – Exhibited Animals Consultation Regulation Impact Statement March 2014
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A3.5 – Incremental cost of secure perimeter fence – S2.1Under proposed standard S2.1, the operator must ensure that facilities have a secure perimeter fence except for NSW, VIC and WA where this is already a requirement under the base case. This would result in non-compliant medium size facilities such as wildlife fauna parks requiring fencing, such as cyclone fencing. It is assumed that large and small facilities would already have such perimeter fencing as part of normal operations under the base case.139 For costing purposes it is assumed that these facilities cover an average of 10 hectares per facility or 100,000 square metres. For a square facility this would mean a perimeter of 1,265 metres. It is assumed that the fence would be cyclone fencing and would be around $15 per linear foot or $49.21 per metre. This would result in an average cost of around $62,250 per facility. As shown in Table A2.2 there are very few medium size facilities in the relevant jurisdictions affected ranging from only 1 in NT to about 6 in QLD. For the purpose of estimation it is assumed that one facility in each of the effected jurisdictions would need to put in a secure perimeter fence. As shown in Table A3.8, the estimated one-off cost of perimeter fence requirements under proposed standard S2.1 would be $0.25m. Table A3.8: Estimated one-off cost of perimeter fence requirements under proposed standard S2.1
As shown in Table A3.9, the estimated one-off cost of perimeter fence requirements under proposed standard S2.1 over 10 years would be $0.23m in present value 2012-13 dollars. All of the cost would be incurred by medium size facilities. Table A3.9: Estimated one-off cost of perimeter fence requirements under proposed standard S2.1 by state and territory and size of facility over 10 years – 2012-13 dollars
A3.6 – Incremental cost of training for emergency procedures – S2.13Proposed standard S2.13 specifies that an operator must ensure that staff receive training which is appropriate to the duties allocated to them in the facility’s emergency procedures. This would entail 5%140 of all keepers in medium and small facilities requiring roughly 3.5hrs of training a year in emergency procedures involving evacuations, medical or other animal/non-animal related incidents. The hourly charge out rate would be at the keeper rate of $50.42. The estimated annual cost of emergency training under proposed standard S2.13 would be $9,385, as shown in Table A3.10. Table A3.10: Estimated annual cost of training for emergency procedures under proposed standard S2.13 – 2012-13 dollars
As shown in Table A3.11, the estimated 10-year cost of training for emergency procedures under proposed standard S2.13 would be $0.66m in present value 2012-13 dollars. Most of the cost (73.43%) would be incurred by small facilities. Table A3.11: Estimated 10-year cost of training for emergency procedures under proposed standard S2.13 by state and territory and size of facility– 2012-13 dollars
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