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Evidence Guide: AHCBEK203 - Open and reassemble a beehive

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AHCBEK203 - Open and reassemble a beehive

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Prepare to open a beehive

  1. Select, check and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
  2. Identify work health and safety hazards and take action as directed
  3. Identify tools and equipment required for the work
  4. Conduct checks on tools and equipment and report insufficient or faulty items
  5. Assess weather conditions and nectar availability and adjust planned activities to minimise risk of robbing and hive stress
  6. Follow site quarantine and biosecurity protocols where in effect
  7. Use appropriate manual or mechanical handling techniques and minimise damage to beehive
Select, check and use personal protective equipment (PPE)

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Identify work health and safety hazards and take action as directed

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Identify tools and equipment required for the work

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Conduct checks on tools and equipment and report insufficient or faulty items

Completed
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Assess weather conditions and nectar availability and adjust planned activities to minimise risk of robbing and hive stress

Completed
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Follow site quarantine and biosecurity protocols where in effect

Completed
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Use appropriate manual or mechanical handling techniques and minimise damage to beehive

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Open the beehive

  1. Control bees throughout the opening process by using smoke
  2. Carry out work from a safe position in relation to beehive
  3. Raise beehive lid using hive tool and remove queen excluder, frames and supers as required
  4. Place all removed frames and supers on upside down lid to ensure they remain dirt free
Control bees throughout the opening process by using smoke

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Carry out work from a safe position in relation to beehive

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Raise beehive lid using hive tool and remove queen excluder, frames and supers as required

Completed
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Place all removed frames and supers on upside down lid to ensure they remain dirt free

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Reassemble the beehive

  1. Place brood frames back into hive in the same position from which they were removed unless manipulation is being undertaken
  2. Replace all frames in appropriate boxes and replace queen excluders and supers
  3. Replace beehive lid and where used, secure with hive fastener
Place brood frames back into hive in the same position from which they were removed unless manipulation is being undertaken

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Replace all frames in appropriate boxes and replace queen excluders and supers

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Replace beehive lid and where used, secure with hive fastener

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to open a beehive

1.1 Select, check and use personal protective equipment (PPE)

1.2 Identify work health and safety hazards and take action as directed

1.3 Identify tools and equipment required for the work

1.4 Conduct checks on tools and equipment and report insufficient or faulty items

1.5 Assess weather conditions and nectar availability and adjust planned activities to minimise risk of robbing and hive stress

1.6 Follow site quarantine and biosecurity protocols where in effect

1.7 Use appropriate manual or mechanical handling techniques and minimise damage to beehive

2. Open the beehive

2.1 Control bees throughout the opening process by using smoke

2.2 Carry out work from a safe position in relation to beehive

2.3 Raise beehive lid using hive tool and remove queen excluder, frames and supers as required

2.4 Place all removed frames and supers on upside down lid to ensure they remain dirt free

3. Reassemble the beehive

3.1 Place brood frames back into hive in the same position from which they were removed unless manipulation is being undertaken

3.2 Replace all frames in appropriate boxes and replace queen excluders and supers

3.3 Replace beehive lid and where used, secure with hive fastener

Required Skills and Knowledge

Element

Performance criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to open a beehive

1.1 Select, check and use personal protective equipment (PPE)

1.2 Identify work health and safety hazards and take action as directed

1.3 Identify tools and equipment required for the work

1.4 Conduct checks on tools and equipment and report insufficient or faulty items

1.5 Assess weather conditions and nectar availability and adjust planned activities to minimise risk of robbing and hive stress

1.6 Follow site quarantine and biosecurity protocols where in effect

1.7 Use appropriate manual or mechanical handling techniques and minimise damage to beehive

2. Open the beehive

2.1 Control bees throughout the opening process by using smoke

2.2 Carry out work from a safe position in relation to beehive

2.3 Raise beehive lid using hive tool and remove queen excluder, frames and supers as required

2.4 Place all removed frames and supers on upside down lid to ensure they remain dirt free

3. Reassemble the beehive

3.1 Place brood frames back into hive in the same position from which they were removed unless manipulation is being undertaken

3.2 Replace all frames in appropriate boxes and replace queen excluders and supers

3.3 Replace beehive lid and where used, secure with hive fastener

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

correctly wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

minimise the risk of robbing and hive stress

raise a beehive lid using a hive tool and bee smoker

reassemble the beehive

work safely around bees.

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

principles and practices of opening and reassembling beehives

bee behaviour, particularly when a beehive is disturbed

components of a beehive.

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