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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Develop health and welfare strategies for livestock
   • Monitor livestock condition and identify risks to health and welfare relevant to the workplace and local environment
   • Develop and document a livestock health and welfare strategy
   • Identify and arrange facilities and equipment required to implement health and welfare strategy
   • Inform staff details of health and welfare strategy, treatment schedules, work health and safety issues
2. Implement health strategy
   • Plan and administer treatment according to veterinary guidelines, legislative requirements, and animal welfare codes of practice
   • Refer complex problems or signs of disease for specialist advice and treatment
   • Carry out control measures as required to prevent the spread of communicable diseases
   • Implement procedures for reporting notifiable diseases according to legislative requirements
3. Manage livestock health and welfare
   • Integrate requirements of the regulations and animal welfare code of practice into the health and welfare strategy and workplace procedures
   • Analyse and evaluate health and welfare records
   • Ensure compliance with withholding periods for treatments
   • Evaluate livestock post-treatment for evidence of treatment effectiveness and any further health problems
   • Review treatment outcomes and evaluate processes for effective management planning and best practice
   • Evaluate animal health, biosecurity and emergency procedures in a review of the animal health and welfare strategy
   • Maintain records for health and welfare strategy

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 livestock diseases relevant to the workplace and local environment

develop prevention and treatment strategies for diseases

implement a proactive risk management approach to managing animal health and welfare

implement health and welfare strategies appropriate to the livestock species

calculate dose rates and schedule treatments

implement and monitor relevant work health and safety requirements

implement and monitor relevant biosecurity and animal welfare practices

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

livestock health and abnormalities

preventative health strategies

principles of genetic resistance and immunity

contingency and operational planning

relevant animal welfare legislation, regulations and codes of practice

relevant environmental protection legislation and codes of practice

treatment applications, handling and consequences of their use

relevant quarantine, biosecurity and emergency legislation, codes of practices and procedures

relevant work health and safety legislative requirements

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