Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain records required for workplace and regulatory agencies by the stock person, boning room or chiller clerk, or the person responsible for maintaining smallgoods production records. It covers major record-keeping and report generating activities.
This unit is applicable to workers who are responsible for keeping detailed records relating to production such as kill sheets, chiller records, boning room records and loadout records. These record-keeping duties should form a significant part of the individual's responsibilities.
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. Prepare production records | 1.1 Identify workplace and regulatory requirements for record-keeping 1.2 Prepare production recording equipment or materials in accordance with work instructions 1.3 Update records on an electronic or manual system in accordance with work instructions 1.4 Correct shortcomings of the recording system if applicable |
2. Generate reports | 2.1 Prepare data summaries and reports in accordance with workplace requirements 2.2 Generate major reports detailing inventory, production or staffing data |
Evidence of Performance
Competency must be demonstrated while collecting and recording significant data over a period of time. The data should involve some complexity in categories and require accurate recording.
The candidate must:
follow all work instructions effectively
generate reports to meet workplace and regulatory requirements
apply relevant workplace health and safety requirements
maintain stocks of consumables for use
prepare all recording equipment for use (where relevant)
use all recording equipment properly (where relevant)
record data according to data requirements
update records as required
prepare all summaries required
apply relevant communication and mathematical skills
describe the workplace and/or regulatory requirements for record-keeping
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
workplace requirements for reports
relevant security arrangements such as Department of Agriculture or company requirements
function and uses of the reports generated
possible shortcomings of recording and how to correct them
purposes of keeping production records
relevant workplace health and safety requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment should be undertaken in an operating meat processing plant.
As a minimum, the following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace project
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.