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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify specifications for cuts
   • Identify specifications for hindquarter cuts, including those from the silverside, rumps and flanks, using cut descriptions according to regulatory requirements, customer and workplace requirements
2. Remove primal cuts from hindquarter of carcase
   • Remove primal cuts from the hindquarter including those from the silverside, rumps and flanks according to work instructions and specifications
   • Bone product in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements including the use of safe manual handling techniques and the safe and effective use of a knife
   • Cut primal lines in compliance with regulatory requirements
   • Deal with meat safety and quality hazards according to work instruction procedures
   • Cut primals to maximise yield
3. Identify and remove defects
   • Trim and deal with defects and contamination according to workplace requirements
   • Report persistent defects to supervisors in accordance with work instructions

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must remove primal cuts from the hindquarter of large stock carcases, such as beef, horse and buffalo.

The candidate must:

demonstrate procedure for boning a hindquarter into a broad range of primal cuts from the rump, silverside and flank of large stock in accordance with workplace requirements

check and correct the accuracy of cutting lines

use equipment safely and hygienically

identify primals containing contamination or abnormalities and handle according to workplace and regulatory requirements

apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) when reporting to supervisors and interacting with team members.

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Knowledge Evidence

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

structure of the carcase as it relates to cutting lines

personal hygiene and dropped meat procedures

primal cutting lines as they relate to the structure of the carcase

primal specifications

procedure for cuts required to maximise yield for a given carcase

procedure for the removal of all primals to desired specifications

relevant workplace health and safety requirements.

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