Onside

“The amount of time that Onside saves our company is very substantial. I’ve been reminded recently, since Covid-19 regulations meant that we had to go back to some manual sign in, to record additional information specific to us. If you just take the functionality of Onside for signing people in, it saves huge amounts of time in that alone.”

““We’ve seen positive changes in biosecurity awareness and culture among wine growers since implementing Onside, aligning with industry best practices and recommendations of the industry body,””

““It's all just being recorded at the check-in point, so tracing and response becomes so much easier.””

““Having Onside potentially saves several industries and the government time and money in the event of a response, by just having that data accessible immediately through these systems and avoiding the need for manually combing through records, making phone calls, talking to people trying to get them to remember who has visited their site or where else they may have been.””

“We initially trialled Onside for its biosecurity feature alone - but once we switched to Onside's full offering, I found a lot of additional features that have made a big difference to the business, particularly visitor and contractor management”

“With the recent African Swine Flu case in Asia and Europe; and Foot and Mouth in Indonesia, we’ve tightened up our stand-down periods. In Onside, we can proactively identify whether a visitor is safe to enter, before they even get to the farm.”

“People coming onsite are one of our biggest biosecurity risks. With Onside, it isn’t just about who has arrived, but where and when they arrive – and me knowing they aren’t a risk to our people or animals”

“Onside Intelligence has significantly contributed to industry readiness and preparedness. It has provided us with a lot more tools in our toolbox of capabilities to prepare for and respond to biosecurity incursions promptly.”

“The popular feedback about Onside from growers and our team is that if we had this type of technology within reach when the Psa incursion first happened, and if we were to be faced with another similar large-scale incursion, it would give us a much better, quicker, and more efficient way to track and trace and understand where it may have come from, where has it spread to, and how we might look to control it.”

“It's been a great two-way engagement. We have regular catch-ups with the team and have been working well to find solutions together. It's been a really good process. Onside has helped a lot with implementation with the growers.”

“Even when we do have all the traceability data, how do we actually process that during a response, particularly if you're dealing with a longer time frame. Onside has helped us in processing that data to produce meaningful results,”

“In the event of an incursion, manually inspecting and testing every potentially affected orchard would be impractical and financially burdensome. The availability of a tool that enables the identification of areas where surveillance efforts will be most effective holds tremendous importance. It could potentially determine the success of eradication efforts versus the failure to do so.”

“We have a legal requirement that growers keep traceability records for plant material movements, and we wanted to make it as easy as possible for our growers to meet that requirement and record the status. Onside gives an easy and friendly platform to easily meet traceability record requirements, and many growers were already using it,”

“The value of this is huge — being able to take action quickly can be the difference between saving orchards and livelihoods.”

“Onside is a great tool — it's hugely beneficial and a meaningful readiness activity that the industry can do to ensure we're better prepared. It has made the process of assessing data and making decisions much easier and faster.”

““All in all, the benefits outweigh the costs as it’s a system that is working to keep our staff safer,””

““It is really important, from the Board perspective and also at staff level. With Onside all of our staff have the information needed to meet Health & Safety policy, right at their fingertips.””

“"My favourite feature in Onside is the remote worker functionality. It enables us to monitor our employees who work alone and receive alerts if they don't respond to the system prompts."”

““Having digital functions is important to our organisation, as it fits with our overall business strategy. Having a digital, portable platform that’s easy for everyone to use and understand has been a real step in the right direction,””

““I can't afford my vineyard to be infected with any biosecurity risk at all, ever. It's so simple, the app makes it very, very easy to manage biosecurity for anyone coming to the property.””

““They're always on the end of the phone if we have a problem. We've been involved with them in the development phase as well. So, any ideas that we've had around our business or any needs that we've had around our business, Onside have certainly been very open to creating or developing part of the app to cater for us.””

““Our Gisborne operation is incorporated into the same system, so we can rest assured that our staff down there are informed about H&S-related matters – and that we are keeping an eye on their safety, albeit from a distance””

““The lone worker functionality is really great in terms of giving us confidence that people in remote areas people are safe doing what they're doing because they obviously sign into the orchard, do the job that they're there to do, and then they sign out and we get notifications of when they're coming on and off the orchard.””

““We looked at several other options that might have provided a solution to all the above issues, but it wasn’t until we came across Onside that it removed all the pain points. Onside also ticked a few more boxes than we had initially expected,””

“Onside made it very easy to adopt our new processes and tick boxes for MPI. This created time savings for us that really highlighted the power of Onside”