Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to select and prepare specialised meat cuts, such as 'trim lamb' or 'new-fashioned pork'.
This unit is applicable to workers in boning rooms, food services and meat retailing operations.
All training must be conducted in accordance with Australian meat industry standards and regulations.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and hygiene requirements.
This unit applies to individuals who work under broad direction and take responsibility for their own work.
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. Determine customer needs | 1.1 Clarify customer needs through questioning and active listening to ensure specialised cuts are cut and trimmed correctly 1.2 Utilise sources of information when necessary to ensure specialised cuts meet the needs of customers |
2. Select meat for specialised cuts | 2.1 Select meat in accordance with quality requirements of specialised cuts 2.2 Select meat from a minimum of two species 2.3 Select meat from bone-in primals |
3. Prepare specialised meat cuts | 3.1 Cut meat according to customer and workplace requirements 3.2 Present cuts to customer requirements |
4. Handle knife effectively | 4.1 Handle knife safely, hygienically and effectively |
5. Cost and price specialised cuts | 5.1 Cost specialised cuts to include yield and labour costs 5.2 Price specialised cuts to meet workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must be observed preparing specialised cuts from a minimum of two species.
The candidate must:
establish customer requirements by questioning, active listening and clarifiying of customer comments where applicable
seek advice from appropriate sources when developing new cuts
select and weigh meats for a range of specialised cuts
prepare specialised meat cuts to workplace health and safety and hygiene requirements
identify sub-standard products and rectify as appropriate
apply communication skills relevant to the task
apply mathematical skills relevant to the task
explain food safety, Quality Assurance (QA) and product quality requirements for specialised cuts
apply relevant workplace health and safety and regulatory requirements
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
what specialised cuts are
food safety, QA and product quality requirements for specialised cuts
requirements for a range of specialised cuts according to workplace and customer requirements
types of specialised cuts to meet customer requirements
relevant workplace health and safety and regulatory requirements
why meat retailers sell specialised cuts
why customers request specialised cuts
costing and pricing calculations
Assessment Conditions
Competency must be demonstrated over time and under typical operating and production conditions for the enterprise.
Assessment must occur in the workplace under normal operating conditions or in a simulated environment.
Where the candidate does not prepare specialised cuts in their usual place of work they must complete the requirements of the unit in an alternative work placement or in a simulated environment.
The following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
demonstration in the workplace or simulated environment
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.