Assessor Resource

AMPA2108
Loadout meat product

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024


This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to load meat products onto trucks and/or containers.

This unit is applicable to workers in a registered meat processing premises such as an abattoir, knackery, boning room, food service operations, smallgoods factory, wholesale butchery, wild game field depot or game meat processing establishment.

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. Identify product

1.1 Identify product required for order in accordance with workplace requirements and customer specifications

1.2 Correctly record temperature of product in accordance with workplace requirements

1.3 Check brands or labels against order

2. Consolidate order

2.1 Check product order to ensure it is complete before loading

2.2 Assemble carcases in hanging yard or palletise carton meat in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements, where required

3. Loadout product

3.1 Handle order in accordance with hygiene and sanitation, and food safety requirements

3.2 Load product into transport vehicle, container or refrigerated storage in accordance with workplace requirements

3.3 Identify and meet workplace health and safety requirements

3.4 Meet security requirements for products in accordance with regulatory requirements

The candidate must load meat products onto trucks and/or containers.

The candidate must:

ensure that all points leading to the loadout area are open and relevant points are closed when handling carcases on the rail

loadout product to workplace, health and safety and regulatory requirements and customer specifications.

use loading machinery and technology according to workplace and manufacturer's specifications

check brands and correctly label product when part of loadout procedures

correctly identify products

accurately record temperatures

accurately weigh product where part of loadout procedures

identify and comply with regulatory requirements for loadout including security arrangements for containers and trucks

identify causes of cross contamination of carcases during manual handling

use communication skills relevant to work instructions

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

workplace health and safety, regulatory, hygiene and sanitation requirements related to loadout of product

purpose and nature of relevant documentation

security requirements related to loadout

impact of weather conditions at loadout from wild game depots e.g. rain (where applicable)

Assessment must be conducted in a registered operating meat processing plant or game depot.

Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production.

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 task 1: [title]      Due date:

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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. Identify product

1.1 Identify product required for order in accordance with workplace requirements and customer specifications

1.2 Correctly record temperature of product in accordance with workplace requirements

1.3 Check brands or labels against order

2. Consolidate order

2.1 Check product order to ensure it is complete before loading

2.2 Assemble carcases in hanging yard or palletise carton meat in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements, where required

3. Loadout product

3.1 Handle order in accordance with hygiene and sanitation, and food safety requirements

3.2 Load product into transport vehicle, container or refrigerated storage in accordance with workplace requirements

3.3 Identify and meet workplace health and safety requirements

3.4 Meet security requirements for products in accordance with regulatory requirements

The candidate must load meat products onto trucks and/or containers.

The candidate must:

ensure that all points leading to the loadout area are open and relevant points are closed when handling carcases on the rail

loadout product to workplace, health and safety and regulatory requirements and customer specifications.

use loading machinery and technology according to workplace and manufacturer's specifications

check brands and correctly label product when part of loadout procedures

correctly identify products

accurately record temperatures

accurately weigh product where part of loadout procedures

identify and comply with regulatory requirements for loadout including security arrangements for containers and trucks

identify causes of cross contamination of carcases during manual handling

use communication skills relevant to work instructions

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

workplace health and safety, regulatory, hygiene and sanitation requirements related to loadout of product

purpose and nature of relevant documentation

security requirements related to loadout

impact of weather conditions at loadout from wild game depots e.g. rain (where applicable)

Assessment must be conducted in a registered operating meat processing plant or game depot.

Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production.

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

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Identify product required for order in accordance with workplace requirements and customer specifications 
Correctly record temperature of product in accordance with workplace requirements 
Check brands or labels against order 
Check product order to ensure it is complete before loading 
Assemble carcases in hanging yard or palletise carton meat in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements, where required 
Handle order in accordance with hygiene and sanitation, and food safety requirements 
Load product into transport vehicle, container or refrigerated storage in accordance with workplace requirements 
Identify and meet workplace health and safety requirements 
Meet security requirements for products in accordance with regulatory requirements 

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