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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to clean pens
   • Confirm work to be undertaken with supervisor
   • Identify work health and safety hazards and seek advice from supervisor for implementation of suitable risk controls
   • Select, maintain and use suitable personal protective equipment
   • Identify the potential environmental and biosecurity impacts of cleaning the pens and seek advice from supervisor for managing these impacts
   • Raise, dismantle or remove equipment from the pens for cleaning if required and clean equipment to appropriate industry standards
   • Service and prepare machinery and tools for cleaning operation
   • Remove and dispose of manure appropriately
   • Clean feeding and watering troughs or equipment appropriately
   • Ensure run-off from cleaning activity complies with enterprise, industry and regulatory effluent and waste management procedures
   • Ensure all cleaning and hygiene processes are completed to industry standards
2. Maintain pens
   • Repack worn and uneven pen surface appropriately
   • Repair damaged feed bunks and leaking water troughs as required
   • Repair pen fences, gates and shade structures as required
3. Complete cleaning and maintenance operation
   • Clean and store equipment appropriately at end of operation
   • Dispose of containers, leftover fluids, waste and debris from the cleaning operations appropriately
   • Complete records and documentation

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, follow safe work practices and use personal protective equipment appropriately

make appropriate preparations for cleaning livestock pens

clean and maintain pens

complete cleaning and maintenance operation

follow relevant environmental and biosecurity practices

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

requirements and methods of cleaning livestock pens

environmental and biosecurity impacts of pen cleaning operation and measures to mitigate these impacts

types and use of tools, equipment and machinery for pen cleaning operation and the maintenance, servicing and storage of such tools, equipment and machinery

environmental and biosecurity impacts and methods of disposal of effluent, bio-waste and waste generated by the cleaning operation

cleaning and maintenance of feeding and watering troughs or similar equipment

types of documentation and records that need to be completed after the cleaning operations

relevant work health and safety, biosecurity and environmental management policies

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