Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to trim hides, skins or pelts.
This unit is applicable to workers in a registered meat processing premises such as abattoirs, knackeries and game meat processing establishments.
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. Trim hides, skins or pelts | 1.1 Trim hides, skins or pelts according to workplace and health and safety requirements 1.2 Identify and explain customer specifications for trimming 1.3 Trim hides, skins or pelts to customer specifications 1.4 Handle hides, skins or pelts in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements 1.5 Dispose of waste in accordance with workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must trim hide or skin.
The candidate must:
trim hides, skins or pelts to workplace and health and safety requirements and customer specifications, where applicable
apply relevant regulatory requirements
use communication skills relevant to work instructions
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
methods of treating animal coverings
workplace health and safety requirements for trimming hides, skins or pelts
importance of achieving a good trim
steps in processing animal coverings at the plant
workplace requirements for trimming animal coverings
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment should be conducted in an operating plant.
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.