Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to complete the opening cuts on the points of a hide or pelt prior to removal. These include such cuts as marking the muzzle, marking the hocks and the fluffy anus cut on sheep.
This unit is applicable to workers on a slaughter floor or in a knackery or wild game meat processing establishment.
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. Explain opening cuts | 1.1 Identify steps involved in opening hide or pelt in accordance with workplace requirements 1.2 Identify and manage sources of contamination and cross-contamination according to workplace requirements 1.3 Identify and explain quality implications of defective opening cuts for product and hide |
2. Perform opening cuts | 2.1 Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with workplace requirements 2.2 Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with hygiene and sanitation requirements 2.3 Perform opening cuts releasing the hide or pelt in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements 2.4 Free hide or pelt to workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must complete the opening cuts on the points of a hide or pelt prior to removal.
The candidate must:
demonstrate the performance of opening cuts to release the hide or pelt in accordance with work instructions, hygiene and sanitation and workplace health and safety requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
the quality implications for product and hide of defective opening cuts
sources of contamination and cross-contamination
the steps involved in opening hide or pelt in accordance with work instructions
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment of skills needs to be conducted in the workplace.
Competency must be demonstrated at normal chain speed.
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.