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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Press extracted tallow from cooked meal
   • Monitor flow of cooked waste
   • Operate and monitor presses in accordance with work instructions
   • Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements
2. Process tallow
   • Carry out start-up and shut-down procedures in accordance with workplace requirements
   • Monitor screening of solids from tallow
   • Separate tallow
   • Take tallow samples
   • Visually monitor tallow quality and provide feedback to supervisor
   • Follow work instructions for tallow production
   • Follow workplace health and safety procedures
3. Ensure the quality of tallow
   • Identify tallow specifications
   • Monitor processing conditions that affect tallow quality
4. Contain spillage
   • Contain any spillage of tallow in accordance with workplace requirements

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must produce tallow from rendered meat product.

The candidate must:

apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

operate the tallow processing plant to workplace requirements

apply relevant regulatory requirements

comply with workplace health and safety requirements

monitor quality of tallow

monitor tallow processing

identify production problems and out-of-specification product and take corrective action

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Knowledge Evidence

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

basic principles of tallow processing

workplace health and safety requirements associated with tallow processing plant

Quality Assurance (QA) requirements associated with tallow processing plant

relevant regulatory requirements

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