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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Set up refrigerated storage rooms
   • Fit and use personal protective equipment and ensure storage room is clean according to food safety and workplace requirements
   • Place shelving or other appropriate material into refrigerated equipment rooms to ensure even flow of refrigerated air throughout room and between products
   • Check closing alarm system, lighting, and on and off switches to ensure systems are fully operational and safe working conditions within the closed room
   • Check air curtain or plastic strips across the door of the storage room are operational, to ensure minimal temperature fluctuations
   • Use temperature probes or temperature data loggers to check and record temperatures of the storage room
   • Report operational maintenance requirements to relevant personnel
2. Place product in refrigerated storage rooms
   • Place newly arrived product in the refrigerated storage rooms according to workplace procedures
   • Reduce temperature of warm product to required level before being placed in the refrigerated storage rooms
   • Store product on a 'first-in-first-out' basis, ensuring labels are intact, legible and visible
   • Set aside product without adequate labelling and report to the relevant personnel
   • Place and safely stack chilled or frozen product to ensure that correct air flow is maintained and product is kept at the required temperature
   • Store fresh product to ensure no cross-contamination occurs from one product to another
3. Maintain stock in refrigerated storage rooms
   • Check fresh product to ensure that there is sufficient ice mixed throughout and covering product
   • Collect and move potable ice using clean shovels and bins
   • Place product on shelving to avoid cross-contamination
4. Stocktake product
   • Check product for freshness and signs of spoilage, and dispose of unsatisfactory product according to workplace and environmental requirements
   • Enter count records on fresh product daily according to workplace requirements
   • Make records on frozen product on a regular basis according to workplace requirements
5. Clean refrigerated storage rooms
   • Clean cool rooms using chemicals and equipment according to workplace cleaning and hygiene procedures
   • Sweep and keep tidy frozen storage rooms according to workplace cleaning procedures
   • Use methods to control vermin according to workplace procedures