The increasing awareness of animal welfare in public and science induces a need for objective
evaluation. Particularly animal welfare during transport is discussed due to the variable
transport conditions in Europe. Therefore an objective evaluation of animal transport is relevant
and the first attempts to develop animal welfare risk assessment guidelines for animal
transport are made. A report of the development of a guideline on animal welfare risk
assessment during animal transport (Dalla Villa et al., 2009) bases on other recent reports
and guidelines of animal welfare risk assessment published by EFSA (2009) and adapts the
method to animal transport condition. For the implementation of a model for quantitative
risk assessment, transport conditions were defined to develop multiple scenarios. Hazard
identification was prepared for each scenario and for three selected scenarios a complete
risk assessment was performed. Within the exemplary risk assessment potential hazards
were initially identified and furthermore hazard description and exposure assessment were
evaluated by expert opinion which resulted in risk characterisation. Within risk characterisation
of each hazard, magnitude and risk estimate were calculated to afford an individual
ranking of these values in order to obtain a graphical illustration of the ten highest estimated
risks.