Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to wash a carcase or operate and monitor a wash cabinet to remove blood, bone dust or any other extraneous matter from a carcase.
This unit is applicable to workers in a registered meat processing premises such as an abattoir or 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. Wash carcase | 1.1 Wash carcase to remove blood, bone dust or any other extraneous matter from a carcase 1.2 Wash carcase to workplace requirements 1.3 Wash carcase to workplace health and safety requirements 1.4 Identify types and sources of potential contamination and cross-contamination |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must decontaminate a carcase by washing, operating and monitoring a wash cabinet or any post trim contamination process.
The candidate must:
wash the carcase to workplace requirements
wash the carcase without causing contamination to the carcase
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
purpose of washing the carcase
regulatory requirements applicable to washing carcases
potential for contaminating the carcase during washing
workplace requirements for washing the carcase
why water usage should be kept to a minimum whilst washing the carcase
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered meat processing plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production.
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.