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AMPA2147
Skirt and weigh fellmongered wool

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Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024


This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.

This unit is applicable to workers skirting fellmongered wool, then sorting and weighing the skirtings.

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. Skirt pulled fleeces

1.1 Skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements.

1.2 Segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions.

1.3 Store skirtings in accordance with workplace requirements.

1.4 Shear large skin pieces, where required.

1.5 Maintain mob separation of fleece wool.

1.6 Select and dry sample fleeces where required.

2. Weigh fleeces

2.1 Weigh fleeces and record results, where required.

The candidate must skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.

The candidate must:

identify all types of wool to be skirted including bellies, legs, coloured wool and stained wool as well as skin and fat pieces

skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace and wool classer's requirements

maintain mob separation

segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions

select and dry sample of fleeces where part of workplace requirements

apply relevant regulatory requirements

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

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

relevant safety procedures

wools to be skirted from fleeces

workplace health and safety, and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements for skirting wool

purpose of skirting and classing

purpose of storing fleeces in their mobs

steps in skirting and classing fleece wool

use of skins and pulled wool

workplace requirements for skirting wool

relevant regulatory requirements.

Assessment must be conducted in an operating fellmongery plant.

Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of throughput.

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. Skirt pulled fleeces

1.1 Skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements.

1.2 Segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions.

1.3 Store skirtings in accordance with workplace requirements.

1.4 Shear large skin pieces, where required.

1.5 Maintain mob separation of fleece wool.

1.6 Select and dry sample fleeces where required.

2. Weigh fleeces

2.1 Weigh fleeces and record results, where required.

The candidate must skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.

The candidate must:

identify all types of wool to be skirted including bellies, legs, coloured wool and stained wool as well as skin and fat pieces

skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace and wool classer's requirements

maintain mob separation

segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions

select and dry sample of fleeces where part of workplace requirements

apply relevant regulatory requirements

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

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

relevant safety procedures

wools to be skirted from fleeces

workplace health and safety, and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements for skirting wool

purpose of skirting and classing

purpose of storing fleeces in their mobs

steps in skirting and classing fleece wool

use of skins and pulled wool

workplace requirements for skirting wool

relevant regulatory requirements.

Assessment must be conducted in an operating fellmongery plant.

Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of throughput.

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
Skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements. 
Segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions. 
Store skirtings in accordance with workplace requirements. 
Shear large skin pieces, where required. 
Maintain mob separation of fleece wool. 
Select and dry sample fleeces where required. 
Weigh fleeces and record results, where required. 

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