Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to eviscerate a carcase that has been wild game shot and forwarded to a meatworks for processing. Such carcases may be required to have the pluck left in to enable meat inspection procedures to take place at wild game processing establishments.
This unit is applicable to workers in registered wild game processing plants and is not relevant to field harvesters.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, customer requirements and product specifications.
This unit applies to individuals who work under broad direction and take responsibility for their own work including limited responsibility for the work of others. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable problems.
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. Remove the internal organs and tissues left in the wild game animal carcase | 1.1 Identify organs and tissues to be removed 1.2 Remove pluck without contaminating the carcase in accordance with work instructions 1.3 Present organs for inspection according to regulatory requirements 1.4 Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements 1.5 Identify sources of contamination and cross-contamination 1.6 Take corrective action in the event of contamination in line with work instructions |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must eviscerate a carcase that has been wild game shot and forwarded to a meatworks for processing.
The candidate must:
remove internal organs to workplace and regulatory requirements
follow procedures for presenting offal for inspection
meet workplace health and safety requirements
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
regulatory requirements applying to evisceration of wild game animal carcase
purpose and method of presenting offal for inspection
relevant work instructions
organs to be removed
potential risks of contamination and cross-contamination of the carcase and the required steps for corrective action
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered wild game processing establishment.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal speed 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.