Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.
This unit is applicable to workers skirting fellmongered wool, then sorting and weighing the skirtings.
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. Skirt pulled fleeces | 1.1 Skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements. 1.2 Segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions. 1.3 Store skirtings in accordance with workplace requirements. 1.4 Shear large skin pieces, where required. 1.5 Maintain mob separation of fleece wool. 1.6 Select and dry sample fleeces where required. |
2. Weigh fleeces | 2.1 Weigh fleeces and record results, where required. |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.
The candidate must:
identify all types of wool to be skirted including bellies, legs, coloured wool and stained wool as well as skin and fat pieces
skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace and wool classer's requirements
maintain mob separation
segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions
select and dry sample of fleeces where part of workplace requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements
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:
relevant safety procedures
wools to be skirted from fleeces
workplace health and safety, and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements for skirting wool
purpose of skirting and classing
purpose of storing fleeces in their mobs
steps in skirting and classing fleece wool
use of skins and pulled wool
workplace requirements for skirting wool
relevant regulatory requirements.
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in an operating fellmongery plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of throughput.
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.