Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

AMPA3131 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals

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Issue Date: March 2024


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Unit of Competency AMPA3131 - Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to recognise the symptoms of emergency diseases and conditions as might be seen during the performance of meat inspection procedures.This unit is suitable for students undertaking meat safety (inspection) training and is a co-requisite for the post-mortem inspection and ante-mortem inspection Units in the Australian Meat Industry Training Package.All work should be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, customer requirements and product specifications.This unit applies to individuals who work under broad direction and take responsibility for their own work including limited responsibility for the work of others. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable problems.No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat processing standards and regulations. Competency should be reassessed every five years.
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.

Competency must be demonstrated on the actual carcase and viscera of at least one species of food animal as well as from models or diagrams of the other food animal species. The species covered must include as a minimum cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry and kangaroos. Other food species could include any other species slaughtered or harvested legally in Australia for human consumption.

Assessment may occur in the workplace or in a suitable teaching environment.

A minimum of three different forms of assessment must be used. These should take the form of:

quiz of underpinning knowledge

identification of signs and symptoms of diseases in different species from images and diagrams

assignment

Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.

Prerequisites/co-requisites
Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities
Slides
PPT
Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Describe the symptoms of the major emergency diseases as they relate to food animals
  • Identify the major emergency diseases of food animals processed in Australia
  • Describe the impact of emergency diseases on the meat industry
  • Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at ante-mortem
  • Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at post-mortem
       
Element: Identify the reporting process for suspected emergency diseases
  • Explain the responsibilities for reporting emergency disease suspects as set out in the enterprise’s emergency disease preparedness plan
  • Describe a meat processing enterprise’s responsibilities after reporting a suspected emergency disease outbreak
  • Explain the role of AUSVET Plan in controlling emergency diseases
  • Describe the potential impact of emergency diseases on the livestock and meat industry
       


Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Describe the symptoms of the major emergency diseases as they relate to food animals

1.1 Identify the major emergency diseases of food animals processed in Australia

1.2 Describe the impact of emergency diseases on the meat industry

1.3 Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at ante-mortem

1.4 Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at post-mortem

2. Identify the reporting process for suspected emergency diseases

2.1 Explain the responsibilities for reporting emergency disease suspects as set out in the enterprise’s emergency disease preparedness plan

2.2 Describe a meat processing enterprise’s responsibilities after reporting a suspected emergency disease outbreak

2.3 Explain the role of AUSVET Plan in controlling emergency diseases

2.4 Describe the potential impact of emergency diseases on the livestock and meat industry

The candidate must recognise the symptoms of emergency diseases and conditions which might be seen during the performance of meat inspection procedures.

The candidate must:

identify the major emergency disease risks to the food animal species relevant to the students duties

identify the symptoms of these emergency diseases

explain the reporting requirements when an emergency disease is suspected in livestock or carcases

explain the steps to be taken by a meat processing company in the event of a suspected outbreak of an emergency disease

explain the steps to be taken by regulators when there is a suspected outbreak of an emergency disease

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

the major emergency diseases of food species animals

the symptoms of the major emergency diseases of food species animals

the reporting requirements when an emergency disease is suspected in livestock or carcases

the steps to be taken by a meat processing enterprise in the event of a suspected outbreak of an emergency disease and how they are to be implemented

the AUSVET plan and the role of regulators, companies and producers in the event of an the reporting requirements when an emergency disease is suspected in livestock or carcases

the steps to be taken by regulators when there is a suspected outbreak of an emergency disease

the enterprise’s emergency disease preparedness plan


Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assignment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

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Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Describe the symptoms of the major emergency diseases as they relate to food animals

1.1 Identify the major emergency diseases of food animals processed in Australia

1.2 Describe the impact of emergency diseases on the meat industry

1.3 Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at ante-mortem

1.4 Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at post-mortem

2. Identify the reporting process for suspected emergency diseases

2.1 Explain the responsibilities for reporting emergency disease suspects as set out in the enterprise’s emergency disease preparedness plan

2.2 Describe a meat processing enterprise’s responsibilities after reporting a suspected emergency disease outbreak

2.3 Explain the role of AUSVET Plan in controlling emergency diseases

2.4 Describe the potential impact of emergency diseases on the livestock and meat industry

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Identify the major emergency diseases of food animals processed in Australia 
Describe the impact of emergency diseases on the meat industry 
Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at ante-mortem 
Describe the symptoms of these major emergency diseases as they may be seen at post-mortem 
Explain the responsibilities for reporting emergency disease suspects as set out in the enterprise’s emergency disease preparedness plan 
Describe a meat processing enterprise’s responsibilities after reporting a suspected emergency disease outbreak 
Explain the role of AUSVET Plan in controlling emergency diseases 
Describe the potential impact of emergency diseases on the livestock and meat industry 

Forms

Assessment Cover Sheet

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