Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to apply Quality Assurance (QA) procedures and Hazard and Critical Control Points (HACCP) requirements in a meat establishment.
This unit is applicable to workers in abattoirs, knackeries, boning rooms, game processing plants, food services operations, wholesalers and meat retail operations.
This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of 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. Identify hazards and control points | 1.1 Identify hazards to food safety and quality for own work area according to workplace and regulatory requirements 1.2 Identify control points for own work area according to workplace requirements |
2. Identify elements of the Quality Assurance (QA) system | 2.1 Identify the purpose and elements of the QA and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems and relate them to workplace requirements 2.2 Identify product specifications for own work area |
3. Follow requirements of a HACCP-based QA system | 3.1 Identify and follow workplace requirements of the HACCP system 3.2 Communicate non-conforming products to supervisor where this forms part of workplace requirements 3.3 Explain the consequences of not following workplace requirements |
4. Identify quality control practices in a HACCP-based QA system | 4.1 Identify quality control measures (including receival procedures and temperature monitoring) 4.2 Identify inspection and re-inspection procedures |
5 Inspect own work | 5.1 Inspect own work according to workplace requirements 5.2 Take corrective action according to workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must be observed consistently complying with Quality Assurance and HACCP requirements in the workplace under normal production conditions.
The candidate must:
comply with regulatory requirements
determine critical control points
follow workplace requirements related to HACCP and QA
identify hazards to food safety
inspect own work
identify and apply relevant workplace health and safety requirements
monitor critical control points
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:
corrective actions relevant to critical control points
nature of food safety hazards
purpose of a HACCP program
requirements for, and the nature of a HACCP plan
regulatory requirements relevant to own work area
nature and importance of work instructions, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), explanations and reports
potential risk, loss or damage if the required actions are not performed
control points for a specific task or activity and how hazards are controlled
hazards to food safety and quality for specific work areas
reasons for quality control, including inspection and sampling
Assessment Conditions
As a minimum, the following three forms of evidence must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace demonstration
workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time
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.