Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to move animals along a race and into the slaughter floor.
This unit is applicable to workers responsible for feeding stock from pens to the slaughter floor at abattoirs and knackeries.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and hygiene requirements.
This unit applies to individuals who work under general supervision, exercise limited autonomy and have some accountability for their own work.
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.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Feed race | 1.1 Feed animals into race effectively and humanely in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements 1.2 Use goads in accordance with workplace requirements 1.3 Comply with workplace health and safety requirements 1.4 Identify and meet animal welfare requirements 1.5 Segregate stock in accordance with work instructions 1.6 Identify and comply with requirements for mob separation |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must move animals along a race and into the slaughter floor.
The candidate must:
feed the race to maintain production requirements
feed the race without causing undue stress to the animals
maintain segregation according to workplace requirements
maintain the flow of animals to meet production requirements
use goads in accordance with work instructions, workplace health and safety and animal welfare requirements
restrain the animal to workplace and workplace health and safety requirements
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
cooperate and communicate with other stock handlers to move stock
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
animal welfare requirements
correct use of goads
regulatory requirements for segregation
required segregation of animals
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and work instructions relevant to feeding the race
workplace requirements related to feeding the race and the reasons for these requirements
characteristics of breeds, sex and age of animals as they relate to work duties
Assessment Conditions
Competency must be demonstrated while complying with workplace and regulatory requirements and at normal production speed at the plant. Assessment must be conducted at an operating abattoir.
As a minimum the following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace demonstration
workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time
Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.
Foundation Skills
Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.