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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assess meat colour, fat colour and marbling
   • Assess product sample to determine meat and fat colour scores and marbling scores within the workplace-specified range
2. Ensure cleaning program is followed
   • Establish and maintain cleaning program to ensure product safety, and health and hygiene requirements are met
   • Set up and follow cleaning schedule for daily, weekly or regular fumigation
3. Monitor chiller temperature
   • Monitor temperature of product daily to meet product specifications, workplace procedures and regulatory requirements
   • Maintain chiller temperature to ensure product safety and meet product specifications
   • Correct changes to temperature to maintain product specifications
4. Monitor product handling and identification
   • Identify and label products in accordance with product specification, customer and workplace requirements
   • Confirm customer requirements to determine delivery arrangements
   • Confirm and arrange temperature and storage requirements for product order in accordance with workplace requirements
   • Complete product order documentation

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

Candidates must be observed assessing products in chillers.

The candidate must:

assess meat colour, fat colour and marbling

ensure the chiller cleaning program is followed

monitor chiller temperature

monitor product handling and identification

apply mathematical concepts to monitoring procedures (e.g. temperature checks and adjustments)

apply relevant communication skills

assess carcases according to workplace and regulatory requirements

complete documentation, including accurate and legible labelling

identify and apply relevant workplace health and safety requirements

identify product chiller requirements

identify product health and hygiene requirements

use available technology to record, gather and interpret product-monitoring data

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Knowledge Evidence

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

the carcase grading system employed in an enterprise

product transfer and storage methods

the process involved in assessing chillers in the workplace

product quality monitoring processes

the importance of fat depth, marbling, carcase colour and other grading parameters

rejection procedures

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