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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to open a beehive
   • Select, check and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
   • Identify work health and safety hazards and take action as directed
   • Identify tools and equipment required for the work
   • Conduct checks on tools and equipment and report insufficient or faulty items
   • Assess weather conditions and nectar availability and adjust planned activities to minimise risk of robbing and hive stress
   • Follow site quarantine and biosecurity protocols where in effect
   • Use appropriate manual or mechanical handling techniques and minimise damage to beehive
2. Open the beehive
   • Control bees throughout the opening process by using smoke
   • Carry out work from a safe position in relation to beehive
   • Raise beehive lid using hive tool and remove queen excluder, frames and supers as required
   • Place all removed frames and supers on upside down lid to ensure they remain dirt free
3. Reassemble the beehive
   • Place brood frames back into hive in the same position from which they were removed unless manipulation is being undertaken
   • Replace all frames in appropriate boxes and replace queen excluders and supers
   • Replace beehive lid and where used, secure with hive fastener

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

correctly wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

minimise the risk of robbing and hive stress

raise a beehive lid using a hive tool and bee smoker

reassemble the beehive

work safely around bees.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

principles and practices of opening and reassembling beehives

bee behaviour, particularly when a beehive is disturbed

components of a beehive.

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