Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to remove primal cuts from the forequarter of large stock carcases, including beef, horse, and buffalo.
This unit is applicable to workers in boning rooms, food service operations, smallgoods plants, wholesale and retail operations.
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. Identify specifications for cuts | 1.1 Determine specifications for forequarter cuts using cut descriptions according to regulatory requirements, customer specifications and workplace requirements |
2. Remove primal cuts from forequarter of carcase | 2.1 Remove primal cuts from carcase according to workplace requirements and specifications 2.2 Cut primal lines in compliance with regulatory requirements 2.3 Deal with meat safety and quality hazards according to workplace procedures 2.4 Remove primal cuts from carcase according to workplace health and safety requirements including safe manual handling techniques and safe effective use of a knife 2.5 Cut primals from a carcase using a technique that maximises yield |
3. Identify, remove and trim defects | 3.1 Identify and deal with defects and contamination according to workplace requirements 3.2 Report persistent defects in carcases to a supervisor in accordance with work instructions |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must remove primal cuts from the forequarter of large stock carcases, such as beef, horse, buffalo
The candidate must:
demonstrate the procedure for boning large stock carcase forequarter primal cuts in accordance with workplace requirements
bone product in safe and hygienic manner
identify primals containing contamination or abnormalities and handle according to workplace and regulatory requirements
maintain the accuracy of cutting lines
use equipment correctly
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) when reporting to supervisor or interacting with team members
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
personal hygiene, dropped meat and workplace health and safety procedures
primal cutting lines as they relate to the structure of the large stock carcase
regulatory, workplace and meat safety procedures and specifications
boning procedure for cuts that is required to maximise yield for a given carcase
procedure for removal of all forequarter primals to desired specifications
carcase defects and the corrective action to be taken
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered, operating meat processing plant or premises
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production for that 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.