Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare temperature control system for receiving seafood
- Select and fit required personal protective equipment
- Select, gather, clean and arrange storage containers to accept seafood according to supervisor instructions
- Arrange temperature control system to accept seafood or containers of seafood according to food safety and quality requirements
- Load seafood safely into selected storage containers, ensuring quality of the seafood is maintained
- Preserve seafood using a temperature control system
- Load and arrange seafood containers, ensuring efficient unloading and maintenance of appropriate product temperature
- Apply cooling medium to seafood appropriate to species and product
- Monitor temperature control system to ensure operating efficiency
- Measure, monitor and maintain seafood temperature within food safety and quality guidelines and take corrective action as required
- Handle seafood according to workplace health and safety, food safety and quality requirements