Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to sweat skins in a fellmongering process.
This unit is applicable to workers filling, operating and emptying sweat rooms in a fellmongering operation.
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. Sweat skins | 1.1 Fold and hang skins in sweat room according to workplace and health and safety requirements. 1.2 Establish temperature and humidity settings for sweat room according to workplace requirements. 1.3 Maintain cleanliness of hanging rooms to workplace requirements. 1.4 Make quality checks on skins prior to removal from sweating room. 1.5 Transfer skins from sweat rooms to wool pulling machines. 1.6 Maintain mob separation of skins. |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must sweat skins in a fellmongering process.
The candidate must:
check quality of the skins
operate the sweating room in accordance with workplace and health and safety requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements and safety procedures
use communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
workplace health and safety requirements related to sweating skins
purpose of sweating skins
quality specifications required of sweated skins prior to pulling
steps in sweating skins
relevant regulatory requirements and safety procedures.
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in an operating fellmongering plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at normal throughput rates 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.