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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to handle eggs
   • Follow biosecurity procedures
   • Follow personal hygiene requirements including washing and sanitising hands
   • Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls
   • Select, use and maintain suitable personal protective equipment and clothing
   • Check work area is clean
   • Check equipment is clean and working correctly
2. Collect and sort eggs
   • Ensure that nests and egg belts are free of sick or injured birds, carcasses and other obstructions in line with enterprise animal welfare procedures
   • Collect eggs from nesting system
   • Collect floor eggs and keep separate
   • Ensure that procedures are implemented to minimise floor eggs
   • Control flow of eggs to match handling rate
   • Remove very dirty, cracked, leakers or weak shelled eggs
   • Wash eggs as required using approved sanitisers and temperatures
   • Operate egg handling equipment appropriately
   • Sort eggs into settable and non-settable and categories within each
3. Pack and store eggs
   • Place eggs on appropriate trays with pointed end down
   • Assemble and stack trays in categories and label clearly and accurately
   • Transfer eggs to storage in order of age, category or dispatch order
   • Operate egg storage facilities/ cool rooms according to enterprise procedures
   • Fumigate eggs if required
4. Complete hygiene and administration activities
   • Clean and disinfect or sanitise egg belts/conveyors, equipment and work area
   • Clean, sanitise and check cool room and equipment
   • Safely handle and measure chemicals used in the cleaning process
   • Take and prepare samples for testing as required
   • Dispose of non settable eggs and waste in line with enterprise environmental polices
   • Monitor pest and vermin presence and implement control measures in line with enterprise procedures
   • Record and report all required information and issues
   • Follow industry standards and enterprise procedures for excess eggs which are destined for human consumption

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:

follow personal hygiene requirements

check nest boxes and egg belts are free of obstructions

match egg collection equipment flow rate to handling rate

collect nest and floor eggs and keep separate

ensure that practices to minimise floor eggs are implemented

assess and sort eggs into settable and non settable and categories within each

place eggs on trays pointed end down

pack, label and store eggs correctly

complete hygiene and administration activities

operate egg washing equipment at correct temperature and sanitiser/detergent levels

clean and sanitise equipment, egg washing equipment, cool rooms and work areas

monitor pest and vermin presence and implement control measures

identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls

follow biosecurity requirements

follow enterprise animal welfare procedures

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

industry standards, codes of practice, and enterprise procedures for collecting, handling, sorting, packing and storing settable eggs

commonly used methods of pest and vermin control

types, uses, cleaning and maintenance of machinery and equipment

relevant documentation, records and reports that are required

criteria for sorting and determining eggs that are unfit for setting and disposal methods

procedures for egg handling, collection, washing, sorting, packing, labelling, storage and fumigation

temperature, humidity, cleaning and operation for cool rooms and egg washing machines

procedures for handling, measurement and usage of cleaning chemicals, disinfectants and sanitisers

procedures for taking and handling samples for testing

enterprise environmental and sustainability requirements, and procedures for disposal and management of wastes, debris and run-offs

enterprise work health and safety, biosecurity and animal welfare policies and procedures

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