- Location
- Essex
I have decided that there must be a student or someone out there with time to take up the below, run with it and make themselves a fortune. All I want is to find the right person that I can help make it work.
The problem
There is no universal 'method' for working in a milking parlour (all parlours are slightly different) making bringing in new labour/relief milkers tricky as new staff have to learn each parlour as 'new', causing potential safety issues and risks from things like contaminated milk, fire, flood etc - the tail markings for example are different in every farm.
This means the farmer has to be on hand to explain simple things like 'where to find XX and XX'
The solution
Every McDonalds across the UK has a simple and universal signage and colour coding system in the kitchens, backed my a method statement, that means that one employee can work in any restaurant across the UK and know what they are doing in seconds.
Someone could design a similar system and apply the above to every milking parlour in the UK - For example every farm should have a clear sign at the entrance explain what to do when any visitor arrives - step 1 please park at XXX Step 2 please call XXXXX Step 4 etc..
You could decide to have this in several languages.
Then you would also have a clearly presented large map of the farm indicating the fields (named) , boundaries etc,
and them a step by step method for bringing the cows in.. etc etc etc
A smaller map of the milking parlour explaining where things like taps, hoses, and washing facilities are. Everything in the parlour clearly marked with a specific symbol (no language issues either).
Another explaining the marking system for cows on medication which should be the same on every farm). and the method for what to do in that instance.
Another explaining emergency procedures.
The business
You design the system, come up with a brand name, you set up the company providing the training to relief milkers on how the system works, you charge farmers for implementing the system on their dairy units (including the clear signage) by a retainer and quarterly visits to update or change any info provided you keep the system the same across all units.
You provide a method statement for all of the above.
You sell the system and the idea to Tescos who demand it on all their supplier units.
Fundamental - the system must be simple to understand available in the major languages and regularly maintained by the system provider who must attend the farm!
Farmers can then -
- Employ relief staff with confidence, without weeks of training or the worry that they wont know what to do (and then the farmer can go on holiday)
- limit the risk of antibiotics, for example, accidently contaminating milk
-limit the health and safety risk of staff on the farm
-Employ anyone trained in the system and expect them to know what they are doing within hours
The future - you provide the same style system for harvest workers (casual tractor drivers in the arable sector)
What do you think ?
The problem
There is no universal 'method' for working in a milking parlour (all parlours are slightly different) making bringing in new labour/relief milkers tricky as new staff have to learn each parlour as 'new', causing potential safety issues and risks from things like contaminated milk, fire, flood etc - the tail markings for example are different in every farm.
This means the farmer has to be on hand to explain simple things like 'where to find XX and XX'
The solution
Every McDonalds across the UK has a simple and universal signage and colour coding system in the kitchens, backed my a method statement, that means that one employee can work in any restaurant across the UK and know what they are doing in seconds.
Someone could design a similar system and apply the above to every milking parlour in the UK - For example every farm should have a clear sign at the entrance explain what to do when any visitor arrives - step 1 please park at XXX Step 2 please call XXXXX Step 4 etc..
You could decide to have this in several languages.
Then you would also have a clearly presented large map of the farm indicating the fields (named) , boundaries etc,
and them a step by step method for bringing the cows in.. etc etc etc
A smaller map of the milking parlour explaining where things like taps, hoses, and washing facilities are. Everything in the parlour clearly marked with a specific symbol (no language issues either).
Another explaining the marking system for cows on medication which should be the same on every farm). and the method for what to do in that instance.
Another explaining emergency procedures.
The business
You design the system, come up with a brand name, you set up the company providing the training to relief milkers on how the system works, you charge farmers for implementing the system on their dairy units (including the clear signage) by a retainer and quarterly visits to update or change any info provided you keep the system the same across all units.
You provide a method statement for all of the above.
You sell the system and the idea to Tescos who demand it on all their supplier units.
Fundamental - the system must be simple to understand available in the major languages and regularly maintained by the system provider who must attend the farm!
Farmers can then -
- Employ relief staff with confidence, without weeks of training or the worry that they wont know what to do (and then the farmer can go on holiday)
- limit the risk of antibiotics, for example, accidently contaminating milk
-limit the health and safety risk of staff on the farm
-Employ anyone trained in the system and expect them to know what they are doing within hours
The future - you provide the same style system for harvest workers (casual tractor drivers in the arable sector)
What do you think ?
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