Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to clean and sanitise a boning room. It deals with the skills and knowledge required to operate, strip down and clean all the mechanical aids in the boning room (e.g. packing machinery, conveyors, elevators, scales, recording and labelling machines). It also involves the operation of high pressure cleaning equipment and the use of approved cleaning chemicals in the plant.
This unit is applicable to workers cleaning boning rooms after production has finished. The boning rooms may be attached to abattoirs or in smallgoods plants or part of food services, game processing or wholesaling operations.
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. Clean boning room | 1.1 Clean boning room in accordance with cleaning schedule and work instructions 1.2 Undertake cleaning procedures to minimise condensation 1.3 Use cleaning chemicals in accordance with manufacturer's specifications and workplace health and safety requirements 1.4 Identify major areas of contamination 1.5 Ensure cleaning procedures meet pre-operational hygiene requirements 1.6 Ensure surfaces are left free of excess moisture |
2. Clean boning room machinery | 2.1 Isolate machinery in accordance with workplace requirements 2.2 Clean boning room packing machinery in accordance with workplace requirements and manufacturer specifications 2.3 Isolate and clean conveyers and elevators 2.4 Clean electronic scales, recording and labelling machines in accordance with workplace requirements and manufacturer's specifications |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must clean and sanitise a boning room.
The candidate must:
clean boning room in accordance with workplace requirements
clean boning room machinery in accordance with workplace requirements
observe workplace health and safety requirements for cleaning the boning room
identify and apply relevant regulatory requirements
use communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
monitor program for boning room hygiene and sanitation including surface swabbing and pre-operational checks
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must clean and sanitise a boning room.
The candidate must:
importance of drying, and of avoiding condensation in boning rooms
cleaning schedule for the boning room
major sources and locations of contamination in the boning room
specific cleaning programs and workplace health and safety requirements for boning room machinery and conveyor systems
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered operating meat processing plant.
Competency must be demonstrated during normal cleaning operations.
As 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.