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Poultry Passport
Kath Morrison
Cargill Meats Europe
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Cargill Meats Europe
• Chicken production business based in Hereford, part of Cargill global
company
• Deal in “Farm to Fork”
• Have our own laying, breeding, growing farms, hatcheries and vet lab
as well as production and further processing facilities.
• Use Poultry Passport to underpin training needs, gap analysis and
CPD for our agricultural division.
• Large numbers of employees from EU countries
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Poultry Passport
• Developed to encourage a consistent level of training across the
poultry industry.
• Championed by Lantra (SSC for land based industry), BPC, NFU and
Poultec training.
• Established minimal training requirements for each role within Poultry
Industry
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Poultry Passport
• The Passport System is a secure on line training record system
– Individuals have access to their own account
– Companies/Managers have access to their employees accounts
• Can generate reports to identify training gaps, or where refresher
training is required.
• Records are updated on submission of evidence of
training/qualification. Information is verified prior to updating on the
system by the scheme administrators.
• There is an annual registration fee of £20 per individual
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Poultry Passport
• The passport is divided into 4 levels
• Job roles are mapped to different levels
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Level 1: basic skills positions
Level 2: assistant level positions
Level 3: manager/facility responsibility positions
Level 4: Area/senior manager positions
• Can be used to talent manage, individuals can develop through the
different levels
• In future can use as recruitment measure – internal and external
recruitment – accreditation of prior learning.
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Pro’s and con’s
Pro’s
• Easy to input/update training records
• Industry standard
• Single source of information
• Transferable, Passport moves with the individual
Con’s
• Need for original certificates etc for input – not always easily
obtainable (will improve as system beds in)
• Annual registration fee – smaller independent farms don’t always see
the
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