AMPCOR201
Maintain personal equipment


Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain, clean and store personal equipment, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

This unit can be used as part of a worker's induction to a meat processing establishment, smallgoods producer, retail premises or other meat establishment.

This unit must be delivered in the context of Australian meat industry standards and regulations.

No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.


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. Maintain personal equipment

1.1 Maintain personal equipment to ensure manufacturer specifications are met, where relevant

1.2 Meet workplace health and safety, hygiene and sanitation, workplace and regulatory requirements

2. Store personal equipment

2.1 Carry out appropriate maintenance for the equipment used

2.2 Store personal equipment in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements

3. Clean personal equipment

3.1 Clean personal equipment to ensure that workplace requirements, workplace health and safety, hygiene and sanitation requirements, and manufacturer's specifications are all met, where relevant

Evidence of Performance

The individual must be observed, on at least three separate occasions, following accepted workplace requirements for the maintenance of personal equipment.

The candidate must:

apply communication skills relevant to the task

demonstrate procedures for maintaining personal equipment

check and prepare equipment in time for the start of work

apply hygiene and sanitation, workplace health and safety requirements when using, cleaning and storing personal equipment, including Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)


Evidence of Knowledge

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

maintenance techniques for personal equipment

relevant work instructions, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and reports

hygiene and sanitation, workplace health and safety, workplace and regulatory requirements related to maintaining, cleaning and storing personal equipment

manufacturer specifications for use, maintenance, cleaning and storage of personal equipment, where relevant


Assessment Conditions

All assessment must be conducted against Australian meat industry standards and regulations.

Competency must be demonstrated during the normal operations of a meat processing workplace.

Competency must be assessed using the personal equipment issued to the individual.

The following three forms of evidence must be used:

quiz of underpinning knowledge

workplace demonstration

workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time

Assessors must satisfy current standards for RTOs.


Foundation Skills

Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.


Range Statement


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