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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to construct or repair beehives
   • Identify required materials and equipment
   • Check beehive components are suitable for use
   • Return faulty components to storeroom and replace, repair or dispose of
   • Select, check and use suitable personal protective equipment
   • Identify and report work health and safety hazards
2. Construct or repair beehives
   • Inspect beehives requiring repair to identify scope of job and materials and tools required
   • Burn or send beehives for irradiation where visual inspection or testing indicates presence of American foulbrood disease
   • Assemble or repair beehive components using replacement parts, nails, joins, glues and construction techniques
   • Apply appropriate timber treatments to beehive
   • Mark constructed or repaired beehive components clearly in accordance with State or Territory legislation
   • Report problems or difficulties in completing work to required standards or timelines
   • Maintain a clean and safe work site while working
3. Clean up on completion of work
   • Return, store or dispose of materials
   • Clean, maintain and store equipment
   • Report work outcomes or note in organisational records

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:

assemble construction materials and check that they present no risk of contamination to the environment or apiculture products

select and use tools appropriate to the task

construct and repair beehives

mark beehives as they are constructed or repaired

clean and maintain equipment after completion of work.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

principles and practices of beehive construction and repair

construction and health standards that have to be maintained for beehives in broad terms

hive components and the materials required to construct or repair them.

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