Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
AMPA3131 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals
Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024
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Unit of Competency | AMPA3131 - Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals |
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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. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Describe the symptoms of the major emergency diseases as they relate to food animals |
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Element: Identify the reporting process for suspected emergency diseases |
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