Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to load meat products onto trucks and/or containers.
This unit is applicable to workers in a registered meat processing premises such as an abattoir, knackery, boning room, food service operations, smallgoods factory, wholesale butchery, wild game field depot 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. Identify product | 1.1 Identify product required for order in accordance with workplace requirements and customer specifications 1.2 Correctly record temperature of product in accordance with workplace requirements 1.3 Check brands or labels against order |
2. Consolidate order | 2.1 Check product order to ensure it is complete before loading 2.2 Assemble carcases in hanging yard or palletise carton meat in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements, where required |
3. Loadout product | 3.1 Handle order in accordance with hygiene and sanitation, and food safety requirements 3.2 Load product into transport vehicle, container or refrigerated storage in accordance with workplace requirements 3.3 Identify and meet workplace health and safety requirements 3.4 Meet security requirements for products in accordance with regulatory requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must load meat products onto trucks and/or containers.
The candidate must:
ensure that all points leading to the loadout area are open and relevant points are closed when handling carcases on the rail
loadout product to workplace, health and safety and regulatory requirements and customer specifications.
use loading machinery and technology according to workplace and manufacturer's specifications
check brands and correctly label product when part of loadout procedures
correctly identify products
accurately record temperatures
accurately weigh product where part of loadout procedures
identify and comply with regulatory requirements for loadout including security arrangements for containers and trucks
identify causes of cross contamination of carcases during manual handling
use communication skills relevant to work instructions
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
workplace health and safety, regulatory, hygiene and sanitation requirements related to loadout of product
purpose and nature of relevant documentation
security requirements related to loadout
impact of weather conditions at loadout from wild game depots e.g. rain (where applicable)
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered operating meat processing plant or game depot.
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.