Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to recover thin skirts as part of a slaughter floor operation.
This unit is applicable to slaughter floor operations.
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. Recover thin skirts | 1.1 Remove thin skirts according to cutting line specifications, workplace and health and safety requirements 1.2 Identify and manage defects in thin skirts according to workplace requirements 1.3 Identify sources of contamination and cross-contamination and corrective take action according to workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must recover thin skirts as part of a slaughter floor operation.
The candidate must:
remove thin skirts according to cutting line specifications, workplace, health and safety, Quality Assurance (QA), and hygiene and sanitation requirements
identify and manage defects in thin skirts according to workplace requirements
identify and correct sources of contamination and cross-contamination according to workplace requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements.
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
cutting line specifications, workplace, health and safety and QA requirements related to the recovery of thin skirts
possible defects in thin skirts
possible sources of contamination and cross-contamination
steps involved in recovering the thin skirt
relevant regulatory requirements.
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must occur in an abattoir under normal production conditions.
Competency has to 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.