Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to clean and sanitise chillers when empty of product.
This unit is applicable to workers at abattoirs, boning rooms, smallgoods factories, game meat processing plants, food services, smallgoods establishments and wholesale operations.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and hygiene requirements.
This unit applies to individuals who work under general supervision, exercise limited autonomy and have some accountability for their own work.
The unit must be delivered and assessed using Australian meat industry 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. Clean chillers | 1.1 Clean chillers in accordance with cleaning program and workplace, workplace health and safety and regulatory requirements 1.2 Workplace health and safety risks and requirements are identified specifically for chillers 1.3 Identify specific areas of contamination risk for the products 1.4 Handle and store chemicals according to workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must clean and sanitise chillers when empty of product.
The candidate must:
implement cleaning regime for chillers in accordance with workplace, workplace health and safety, and regulatory requirements
apply relevant communication and mathematical skills
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
hygiene and sanitation monitoring programs for chillers
importance of avoiding condensation in chillers
chiller cleaning program
potential contamination risks for product in chillers and freezers
workplace health and safety hazards of working in a cold environment
Assessment Conditions
Competency must be demonstrated when the chillers and plant are operating during normal production.
Assessment must occur in a registered meat processing plant or premises.
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.