Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to identify and nominate specific storage locations and the product stored in them.
This unit is applicable to workers in a registered meat processing premises such as a cold storage business, chilling and freezing areas of the abattoirs, food service operations, smallgoods factory, wholesale butchery, game meat processing establishment or pet food premises.
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. Locate storage area | 1.1 Receive and apply information containing stock location to workplace requirements. 1.2 Follow and apply workplace signs, codes and labels to workplace standards and regulatory requirements. |
2. Identify product | 2.1 Correctly identify product in accordance with workplace documentation, signs, codes, labels and brands. 2.2 Assess information on product location either electronically or manually from company records. 2.3 Check product for quality in accordance with workplace quality standards. |
3. Check product | 3.1 Check product storage to ensure workplace requirements are met. 3.2 Pick, count, consolidate, replenish or adjust product to meet workplace, customer and regulatory requirements. 3.3 Identify routine problems with product storage area and take corrective action in accordance with workplace requirements. |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must identify and nominate specific storage locations and the product stored in them. The candidate must:
identify any problems related to storage of products and take the corrective action detailed in work instruction
locate storage areas for a variety of products
identify products accurately
apply relevant workplace health and safety requirements
use communication skills relevant to work instructions
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
purpose of product segregation
relevant workplace health and safety requirements
products stored and their storage requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must occur in the workplace under normal operating conditions.
Competency must be demonstrated under normal utilisation of chiller or freezer facilities.
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.