BioSIRT (Biosecurity Surveillance Incident Response and Tracing) is a spatial and textual, web based software application that has been developed to enable better management of information and resources in emergency responses across animal or plant diseases, pests and incursions.
Biosecurity for Australia’s primary industries and the broader environment depends upon the ability to launch appropriate response action in the event of a serious incident. Failure to prevent and or control these incidents could result in billions of dollars lost in export revenues as well as increases in production costs.
The BioSIRT application was developed in conjunction with the Commonwealth and state and territory governments because of the need for a more effective and nationally coordinated approach in the response to emergency incidents and routine activities. For these reasons the Primary Industries Ministerial Council agreed that BioSIRT would eliminate information barriers that could enhance emergency response management.
The first version of the BioSIRT application has been released and is currently being trialed by jurisdictions in routine surveillance activities.
For more information on BioSIRT visit the DAFF website.