Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to manipulate brood combs
- Clarify reason for manipulating brood and plan appropriate sequence of actions
- Select tools and equipment required to manipulate brood and check prior to use
- Identify work health and safety hazards associated with manipulating brood and take actions to minimise risk to self and others
- Select and use suitable personal protective equipment (PPE) and check prior to use
- Observe site quarantine or other biosecurity protocols in force
- Identify risks to colony, including to brood and queen bee, and take actions to minimise likelihood and consequences of risks
- Manipulate brood
- Open hive and remove combs in planned sequence and place in suitable position
- Replace frames in same or new sequence and position, or remove to another hive according to purposes for which brood is being manipulated
- Monitor hive and colony after the manipulation process and take appropriate action if needed to minimise any disturbance to brood
- Dispose of waste materials appropriately