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. Feed cooker | 1.1 Carry out start-up process to manufacturer's and workplace requirement. |
2. Operate and monitor cooker | 2.1 Operate cooker in accordance with work instructions 2.2 Monitor flow into cooker 2.3 Monitor level in cooker 2.4 Monitor and adjust temperature in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements 2.5 Monitor outflow for workplace requirements 2.6 Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements |
3. Monitor environmental controls | 3.1 Monitor vapours to ensure they are condensed in accordance with regulatory requirements 3.2 Monitor non-condensed emissions to scrubber, bio-filter and/or after burner in accordance with regulatory requirements |
The candidate must operate a continuous cooker.
The candidate must:
apply mathematical processes to monitoring procedures
monitor temperature and make adjustments according to work instructions and product specifications
test product samples to ensure cooked to specifications
load and unload cooker to specifications
monitor emissions to workplace and regulatory requirements
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
basic operating principles of cooker
Quality Assurance (QA) requirements of operations
effects of overcooking
implications on product quality and productivity of incorrect load in cooker
production problems and out-of-specification product and take corrective action
Assessment must be conducted in a registered, operating meat rendering plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production for that rendering plant.
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.