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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Oversee humane handling of animals
   • Identify potential animal welfare risks and existing management procedures
   • Identify animal welfare requirements in legislation, regulation and workplace procedures
   • Oversee handling of animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Monitor procedures for minimising animal stress and preventing injury
2. Oversee humane euthanasia or slaughter of animals
   • Oversee effective restraint and stunning (where appropriate), prior to euthanasing or slaughtering of animals to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee bleeding of animals to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee monitoring of bleed chain insensibility to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
3. Oversee facilities, equipment and people involved with the handling of animals
   • Oversee facilities, equipment, and people handling and slaughtering animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Monitor data about bruising and hide or pelt damage and take corrective action where appropriate
4. Handle contingencies
   • Oversee handling of sick or injured stock in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee handling of wild or uncooperative animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Interpret and implement contingency plans for managing animal welfare
5. Oversee humane handling of animals
   • Identify potential animal welfare risks and existing management procedures
   • Identify animal welfare requirements in legislation, regulation and workplace procedures
   • Oversee handling of animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Monitor procedures for minimising animal stress and preventing injury
6. Oversee humane euthanasia or slaughter of animals
   • Oversee effective restraint and stunning (where appropriate), prior to euthanasing or slaughtering of animals to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee bleeding of animals to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee monitoring of bleed chain insensibility to ensure compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
7. Oversee facilities, equipment and people involved with the handling of animals
   • Oversee facilities, equipment, and people handling and slaughtering animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Monitor data about bruising and hide or pelt damage and take corrective action where appropriate
8. Handle contingencies
   • Oversee handling of sick or injured stock in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Oversee handling of wild or uncooperative animals in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
   • Interpret and implement contingency plans for managing animal welfare

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

Evidence must demonstrate the candidate's consistency of performance over time at production speed.

The candidate must:

explain consequences of incorrect animal handling techniques

explain why correct animal handling helps ensure that meat attains an acceptably low ultimate pH

work effectively as an individual and as part of a team

ensure bruising and/or hide or pelt damage due to livestock handling is minimised

ensure stock handlers remain calm and are not injured or put at risk of injury

ensure stress in animals is minimised through correct handling

identify and apply relevant animal welfare and workplace health and safety requirements

monitor the handling of livestock to ensure minimisation of stress

identify sick and injured stock

identify features of effective restraint, stun and bleed and/or oversee humane destruction

monitor bleed chain insensibility

plan stock movement to meet production requirements and minimise stress

use relevant communication skills

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Knowledge Evidence

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

regulatory and workplace requirements for the humane handling and slaughtering of animals

animal welfare standards and regulations

strategies to minimise stress to livestock

the stunning and bleeding process and/or humane destruction requirements

causes of ineffective stunning and bleeding

regulatory and workplace requirements for monitoring stunning and bleeding

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