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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify fertiliser and soil ameliorant products and associated work health and safety, food safety and environmental issues
   • Source information about new products and developments continually
   • Provide information about fertiliser and soil ameliorant product to customers
   • Explain work health and safety, food safety and environmental issues relating to particular products to customers, with particular reference to their safe storage, handling and application
   • Identify bulk fertiliser and soil ameliorant products using a combination of visual and physical examination of product characteristics
   • Use correct terminology when distinguishing between different products and services
   • Maintain biosecurity protocols and quarantine procedures at all times
2. Work with fertiliser and soil ameliorant products
   • Identify and apply storage and handling requirements of products consistently
   • Identify work health and safety hazards associated with particular products and take appropriate action to minimise risks to self and others
   • Identify environmental risks associated with particular products and take appropriate action to minimise any likely risks to self and others
   • Select, use and maintain suitable personal protective equipment
   • Use inventory and labelling systems to locate products within the workplace or store

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 fertiliser and soil ameliorant products using information about their characteristics

provide information to customers about fertiliser and soil ameliorant products

refer customers to other appropriate sources of information about products

work safely with products

use industry standard terminology.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

characteristics and key label components (including product analysis, impurities and warnings) of the range of fertiliser and soil ameliorants sold or handled in the workplace

key environmental, work health and safety and food safety risks associated with the use, spreading, storage, handling and transport of fertilisers and soil ameliorants.

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