Assessor Resource

AMPA2001
Feed race

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024


This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to move animals along a race and into the slaughter floor.

This unit is applicable to workers responsible for feeding stock from pens to the slaughter floor at abattoirs and knackeries.

All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and hygiene requirements.

This unit applies to individuals who work under general supervision, exercise limited autonomy and have some accountability for their own work.

No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat processing standards and regulations.

You may want to include more information here about the target group and the purpose of the assessments (eg formative, summative, recognition)


Evidence Required

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Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Feed race

1.1 Feed animals into race effectively and humanely in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements

1.2 Use goads in accordance with workplace requirements

1.3 Comply with workplace health and safety requirements

1.4 Identify and meet animal welfare requirements

1.5 Segregate stock in accordance with work instructions

1.6 Identify and comply with requirements for mob separation

The candidate must move animals along a race and into the slaughter floor.

The candidate must:

feed the race to maintain production requirements

feed the race without causing undue stress to the animals

maintain segregation according to workplace requirements

maintain the flow of animals to meet production requirements

use goads in accordance with work instructions, workplace health and safety and animal welfare requirements

restrain the animal to workplace and workplace health and safety requirements

apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

cooperate and communicate with other stock handlers to move stock

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

animal welfare requirements

correct use of goads

regulatory requirements for segregation

required segregation of animals

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and work instructions relevant to feeding the race

workplace requirements related to feeding the race and the reasons for these requirements

characteristics of breeds, sex and age of animals as they relate to work duties

Competency must be demonstrated while complying with workplace and regulatory requirements and at normal production speed at the plant. Assessment must be conducted at an operating abattoir.

As a minimum the following three forms of assessment must be used:

quiz of underpinning knowledge

workplace demonstration

workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time

Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Feed race

1.1 Feed animals into race effectively and humanely in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements

1.2 Use goads in accordance with workplace requirements

1.3 Comply with workplace health and safety requirements

1.4 Identify and meet animal welfare requirements

1.5 Segregate stock in accordance with work instructions

1.6 Identify and comply with requirements for mob separation

The candidate must move animals along a race and into the slaughter floor.

The candidate must:

feed the race to maintain production requirements

feed the race without causing undue stress to the animals

maintain segregation according to workplace requirements

maintain the flow of animals to meet production requirements

use goads in accordance with work instructions, workplace health and safety and animal welfare requirements

restrain the animal to workplace and workplace health and safety requirements

apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

cooperate and communicate with other stock handlers to move stock

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

animal welfare requirements

correct use of goads

regulatory requirements for segregation

required segregation of animals

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and work instructions relevant to feeding the race

workplace requirements related to feeding the race and the reasons for these requirements

characteristics of breeds, sex and age of animals as they relate to work duties

Competency must be demonstrated while complying with workplace and regulatory requirements and at normal production speed at the plant. Assessment must be conducted at an operating abattoir.

As a minimum the following three forms of assessment must be used:

quiz of underpinning knowledge

workplace demonstration

workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time

Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.
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Observation Checklist

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Forms

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