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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Follow quality assurance practices on food safety and quality, biosecurity and animal welfare
   • Elements of the industry quality assurance requirements are determined.
   • Hazards to food safety and quality are identified for work area according to enterprise guidelines and standard operating procedures.
   • Critical control points for work area are determined according to workplace procedures.
   • Record keeping is completed according to industry quality assurance requirements.
2. Implement standard operating procedures
   • Standard operating procedures are implemented according to enterprise requirements.
   • Non-conforming or defective product reported to supervisor according to enterprise/industry requirements.
   • Corrective action is taken according to enterprise policy and procedures.
3. Report problems that affect quality
   • Potential or existing quality problems are recognised.
   • Instances of variation in quality from specifications or work instructions are identified.
   • Variations and potential problems are reported to supervisor/manager according to enterprise guidelines.

Required Skills

Required skills

implement quality assurance practices on food safety and quality biosecurity and animal welfare implement standard operating procedures report problems that affect quality use literacy skills to read interpret and follow organisational policies and procedures follow sequenced written instructions record information collected accurately and legibly and select and apply procedures for a range of tasks use oral communication skillslanguage competence to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation including questioning techniques active listening clarifying information and consulting with supervisors as required use numeracy skills to estimate calculate and record routine workplace measures use interpersonal skills to work with and relate to people from a range of cultural social and religious backgrounds and with a range of physical and mental abilities

Required knowledge

industry quality assurance requirements such as the Australian Pig Industry Quality Program APIQ animal production processes Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point HACCP approach to quality assurance enterprise policies guidelines and standard operating procedures relating to food safety and quality biosecurity and animal welfare enterprise Occupational Health and Safety OHS requirements and environmental procedures

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package
Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to workplace operations and satisfy holistically all of the requirements of the performance criteria and required skills and knowledge and include achievement of the following follow quality assurance practices on food safety and quality biosecurity and animal welfare identify and report issues that impact on product quality contribute to review of work output against quality standards keep records that are required under enterprise quality assurance
Context of and specific resources for assessment	Competency requires the application of work practices under work conditions Selection and use of resources for some worksites may differ due to the regional or enterprise circumstances

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole.
Quality assurance may include:	quality assurance systems for food safety and quality, biosecurity, environmental management and animal welfare systems can be developed at an industry or enterprise level.

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