Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to salt hides, pelts or skins.
This unit is applicable to workers in hide/skin sheds attached to abattoirs, knackeries or 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. Salt hides, pelts or skins | 1.1 Salt and handle hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements 1.2 Inspect hides, pelts or skins prior to and after salting to ensure specifications are met 1.3 Monitor salting process in accordance with workplace requirements |
2. Store and monitor hides, pelts or skins | 2.1 Store or palletise salted hides, pelts or skins in accordance with customer specifications and workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must salt hides, pelts or skins.
The candidate must:
process and salt hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements
monitor salt processing of hides, pelts or skins
inspect hides, pelts or skins to ensure specifications are met
handle hides, pelts or skins in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements
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 stacking and storing hides, pelts or skins to meet workplace and customer requirements
methods of treating animal coverings
specifications for salting and storage of hides, pelts or skins
steps in processing animal skins, hides or pelts
steps in salting hides, pelts or skins
workplace, health and safety and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements related to salting hides, pelts or skins
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in an operating skin shed.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of skin processing.
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.