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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Explain opening cuts
   • Identify steps involved in opening hide or pelt in accordance with workplace requirements
   • Identify and manage sources of contamination and cross-contamination according to workplace requirements
   • Identify and explain quality implications of defective opening cuts for product and hide
2. Perform opening cuts
   • Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with workplace requirements
   • Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with hygiene and sanitation requirements
   • Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements
   • Free hide or pelt to workplace requirements

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must complete the opening cuts on the points of a hide or pelt prior to removal.

The candidate must:

demonstrate the performance of opening cuts to release the hide or pelt in accordance with work instructions, hygiene and sanitation and workplace health and safety requirements

apply relevant regulatory requirements

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

the quality implications for product and hide of defective opening cuts

sources of contamination and cross-contamination

the steps involved in opening hide or pelt in accordance with work instructions

relevant regulatory requirements

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