Google Links

Follow the links below to find material targeted to the unit's elements, performance criteria, required skills and knowledge

Elements and Performance Criteria

1. View and assess pre-sale information
   • Identify stock that meet the workplace or customer requirements prior to the sale
2. Confirm destination information
   • Ensure buyer’s destination Property Identification Code (PIC) is known to the saleyard operators
3. Complete purchase
   • Confirm all required documentation is completed correctly
   • Complete purchase according to enterprise requirements
4. Secure Post Sale Summary (PSS) or buyer's reconciliation report
   • Check PSS for consistency with pre-sale catalogue (where a pre-sale summary is offered) purchase decisions
   • Confirm that all National Vendor Declarations (NVDs) from which stock have been sourced are held by the agent
   • Obtain hard copies if required
   • Ensure PSS lists of mobs purchased are transferred to abattoir PIC via NLIS account within the legal timeframe
   • Take corrective action as appropriate
5. Notify receiving plant of stock transfer details
   • Communicate stock transfer information according to workplace requirements

Range Statement

---

Performance Evidence

The candidate must manage the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) responsibilities for livestock identified by Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) purchased at a saleyard, prior to their arrival at an abattoir.

The candidate must:

view and assess pre-sale information

confirm destination information

complete purchase

secure PSS or buyer's reconciliation report

notify receiving plant of stock transfer details

read and interpret a pre-sale catalogue

read and interpret an NVD

read an interpret a PSS

use communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to interact with agents, raise and explain issues and problems

use negotiation skills to resolve issues such as problems with original location, incomplete NVDs or PICs

use mathematical skills to validate data on PSS

take appropriate steps to minimise workplace health and safety risks when working with livestock

---

Knowledge Evidence

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

the NLIS system, including the origin and nature of the system, its commercial importance, role in food safety and importing country requirements, role in traceability

NLIS regulatory requirements in relation to abattoirs

purpose, nature of and regulations underpinning the use of PICs

role and responsibilities of regulators, and other bodies such as MLA in relation to NLIS

status, abbreviations and what they mean, and the required actions to be taken in response

how to deal with problems of original location

---