List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Salt hides, pelts or skins | 1.1 Salt and handle hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements 1.2 Inspect hides, pelts or skins prior to and after salting to ensure specifications are met 1.3 Monitor salting process in accordance with workplace requirements |
2. Store and monitor hides, pelts or skins | 2.1 Store or palletise salted hides, pelts or skins in accordance with customer specifications and workplace requirements |
The candidate must salt hides, pelts or skins.
The candidate must:
process and salt hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements
monitor salt processing of hides, pelts or skins
inspect hides, pelts or skins to ensure specifications are met
handle hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements
use communication skills relevant to work instructions
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
methods of stacking and storing hides, pelts or skins to meet workplace and customer requirements
methods of treating animal coverings
specifications for salting and storage of hides, pelts or skins
steps in processing animal skins, hides or pelts
steps in salting hides, pelts or skins
workplace, health and safety and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements related to salting hides, pelts or skins
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment must be conducted in an operating skin shed.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of skin processing.
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.