Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to initiate and participate in a product recall.
This unit is applicable to plant managers, Quality Assurance (QA) personnel, managers and marketing personnel who have a role in implementing a product recall.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace and regulatory requirements.
This unit applies to individuals who take responsibility for their own work and for the quality of others’ work within known parameters. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.
This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context if 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. Participate in decision about disposition | 1.1 Participate in making the decision about whether to recall a product, in accordance with according to regulatory, workplace and product specifications |
2. Simulate a product recall | 2.1 Identify criteria for a product recall in accordance with product specifications and workplace requirements 2.2 Identify and trace product to be recalled according to product specifications and workplace requirements 2.3 Identify individuals or groups involved in a product recall and describe their roles 2.4 Identify and describe steps in recall 2.5 Review product development in consultation with relevant personnel 2.6 Review manufacturing methods and quality control methods to prevent problems re-occurring |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must participate in a real or simulated product recall.
The candidate must:
identify and implement the procedures for a product recall
use communications technology including computers and telephones to facilitate product recall
complete records of simulated product recall exercise and review to improve recall procedures
identify and apply relevant workplace health and safety and regulatory requirements
identify records of product identification and traceability and use them for trace forward
use relevant communication skills
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a broad factual, technical and theoretical knowledge of:
steps involved in implementing a product recall
reasons and procedures for initiating a product recall
Assessment Conditions
Competency must be demonstrated utilising a documented product recall procedure and realistic data. Assessment can be based on participation in a comprehensive simulation.
A minimum of three different forms of assessment must be used.
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.