Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to clean and sanitise a slaughter floor after operations. It deals with the skills and knowledge required to operate, strip down and clean all the mechanical aids on the slaughter floor (e.g. knocking or stunning equipment, hoists, rails, chutes, bins, viscera tables). It also includes the operation of high pressure cleaning equipment and the use of approved cleaning chemicals in the plant.
This unit is applicable to workers in abattoirs, knackeries and 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. Clean slaughter floor | 1.1 Clean slaughter floor in accordance with cleaning schedule and work instructions. 1.2 Use cleaning chemicals according to manufacturer's specifications and workplace health and safety requirements. 1.3 Undertake post-cleaning monitoring in accordance with workplace requirements. 1.4 Conduct slaughter floor cleaning to workplace health and safety requirements. 1.5 Identify and clean specific areas of contamination risk according to workplace requirements. |
2. Clean equipment and fittings | 2.1 Clean knocking or stunning area and isolate and/or immobilise equipment. 2.2 Tag out and immobilise equipment during cleaning. 2.3 Isolate, strip down, clean and sanitise machinery according to work instructions. 2.4 Check cleaned areas according to workplace requirements. |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must clean and sanitise a slaughter floor after operations.
The candidate must:
identify significant areas of contamination on slaughter floor
clean slaughter floor effectively in accordance with cleaning program
clean slaughter floor equipment in accordance with work instructions and workplace health and safety 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:
implications for production if slaughter floor fails to meet pre-operational check requirements
cleaning schedule for slaughter floor
hygiene and sanitation monitoring program for slaughter floor
relevant regulatory requirements
significant areas of contamination on slaughter floor
specific workplace health and safety risks associated with cleaning machinery on slaughter floor
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in an abattoir under normal working conditions.
Competency must be demonstrated throughout the process area and in cleaning all items of equipment.
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.