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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Maintain environment systems
   • Carry out biosecurity procedures, including access to sheds and boot washing
   • Carry out maintenance work according to enterprise work health and safety standards for hazards identification, risk assessment and risk control measures
   • Carry out shed heating, cooling and ventilation systems maintenance
   • Check litter and manure conditions and report changes
   • Maintain lighting programs specified for the production unit and report variations
   • Clean light globes regularly and report malfunctions
   • Check feed program is working according to enterprise procedures and report malfunctions
   • Check feeding times and feed rate when restricted feeding is practised and report malfunctions
   • Carry out maintenance work as necessary
   • Check waterers in sheds and report malfunctions
2. Observe and assess livestock health
   • Check livestock regularly
   • Recognise and report ill health of livestock
   • Carry out disease prevention strategies appropriate to the unit as instructed and in line with biosecurity codes
3. Handle livestock
   • Handle livestock in accordance with animal welfare requirements and codes of practice
   • Count and identify livestock
   • Recognise and identify injured, malformed or non-productive livestock, and report to enterprise or supervisor
   • Treat livestock under direction of the unit supervisor, and report the effects of treatment

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:

identify work health and safety hazards and follow safe work practices

follow relevant biosecurity practices

maintain environment systems

observe and assess livestock health

follow relevant animal welfare practices when handling or treating livestock

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

relevant biosecurity requirements

relevant animal welfare requirements

relevant work health and safety requirements and sustainability practices

shed heating, cooling and ventilations systems, their functions, maintenance and servicing, and impact of changes on livestock

types of litter, functions and impact of litter changes on livestock

impact of manure conditions on livestock

lighting programs and impact of variations in lighting programs on livestock

types of lighting, functions, maintenance and servicing

feeding programs and impact of changes and malfunctions on livestock

restricted feeding and impact of changes and malfunctions on livestock

watering systems, functions, maintenance and servicing, and the impact of changes and malfunctions on livestock

types of maintenance work that need to be carried out in a livestock production unit

signs of health, anatomy, physiology and behaviour of the livestock species

signs of ill health in the livestock species

signs of injury, malformation and non-productiveness in livestock

types of disease prevention strategies and their functions

methods for handling livestock

methods for counting and identifying livestock

types of treatment in livestock and assessment of treatment effectiveness

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