Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to operate a press (batch or continuous).
This unit is applicable to workers in rendering plants.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, customer requirements and product specifications.
This unit applies to individuals who work under broad direction and take responsibility for their own work including limited responsibility for the work of others. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable problems.
No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat processing 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. Perform start-up operation | 1.1 Perform start-up operation to manufacturer's and workplace requirements |
2. Monitor running of press | 2.1 Monitor flow of product 2.2 Monitor condition of press cake 2.3 Monitor build-up of fines 2.4 Remove fines in accordance with workplace requirements 2.5 Operate press in accordance with work instructions 2.6 Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements |
3. Clean press and hood | 3.1 Regularly clean press and hood in accordance with workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must operate a press (batch or continuous).
The candidate must:
perform start-up procedures to workplace requirements
load and unload press to specifications
test product samples to ensure pressed product meet specifications
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
follow workplace health and safety requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
basic operating principles of the press
implications on product quality and productivity of incorrect press
production problems and out-of-specification product and take corrective action
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered, operating meat rendering plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production for that rendering plant.
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.