Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to remove the skin or hide of a condemned carcase.
This unit is applicable to workers in abattoirs, knackeries or game 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. Skin condemned carcase | 1.1 Skin carcase in accordance with work instructions and regulatory requirements 1.2 Handle carcase in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements 1.3 Dispose of hide in accordance with workplace requirements 1.4 Dispose of carcase in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must remove the skin or hide of a condemned carcase.
The candidate must:
hoist and skin carcase in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
workplace health and safety requirements related to skinning a condemned carcase
risks to hide quality through inaccurate skinning cuts
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in an operating processing plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the speed required in an operating processing plant.
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.