Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide continuous supply of sheep to shearers
- Identify work health and safety hazards and report to the supervisor
- Select and use suitable personal protective equipment
- Apply animal welfare principles to the movement and penning of sheep
- Pen sheep in their separate mobs as instructed
- Secure gates to prevent sheep escaping on to the board
- Monitor the speed of shearers and arrange numbers of sheep in catching pens so that shearers all complete shearing at or near mob cutout
- Monitor sheep numbers in catching pens and fill pens as they empty to ensure continuous supply to shearers
- Refill other pens as required
- Keep mobs separate
- Secure gates to prevent mixing of mobs
- Fill pens with sheep from only one mob at any given time to avoid mixing mobs and wool types
- Inform supervisor of mob cutout
- Move sheep to other catching pens to ensure that mob cutout is simultaneous
- Use safe workplace practices and observe animal welfare requirements with regard to livestock handling
- Prevent contamination of wool