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Maintain personal equipment
Apply hygiene and sanitation practices
Comply with Quality Assurance and HACCP requirements
Follow safe work policies and procedures
Communicate in the workplace
Overview the meat industry
Implement food safety program
Conduct an internal audit of a documented program
Perform carcase Meat Hygiene Assessment
Grade beef carcases using Meat Standards Australia standards
Use standard product descriptions – beef
Perform manual chemical lean testing
Assess product in chillers
Monitor temperature and pH decline
Record and present data
Collect and prepare standard samples
Perform basic tests

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Develop, manage and maintain quality systems
Manage maintenance systems
Manage utilities and energy
Manage and improve meat industry plant operations
Manage transportation of meat, meat products and meat by-products
Design and manage the food safety system
Manage new product or process development
Manage meat processing systems to maintain and improve product quality
Manage effective operation of meat enterprise cold chain and refrigeration systems
Monitor and manage organisational legal responsibilities

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Manage transportation of meat, meat products and meat by-products
Manage new product or process development
Manage and improve meat industry plant operations
Provide leadership across the organisation
Manage, maintain and continuously improve workplace health and safety plans and systems
Manage complex projects

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Develop and assess a meat retailing business opportunity
Design and manage the food safety system
Manage new product or process development
Develop and implement a business plan
Manage store facilities
Manage budgets and financial plans

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Implement food safety program
Apply food animal anatomy and physiology to inspection processes
Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals
Maintain personal equipment
Apply hygiene and sanitation practices
Comply with Quality Assurance and HACCP requirements
Follow safe work policies and procedures
Communicate in the workplace
Overview the meat industry
Manage own work performance
Facilitate Quality Assurance process
Participate in workplace health and safety risk control process
Facilitate hygiene and sanitation performance
Sharpen knives
Perform ante and post-mortem inspection – Ovine and Caprine
Perform ante and post-mortem inspection – Calves
Participate in the ongoing development and implementation of a HACCP and Quality Assurance System
Assess compliance with food safety programs
Conduct food safety audits
Raise and validate requests for export permits and Meat Transfer Certificates
Oversee plant compliance with the Australian Standards for meat processing

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Manage own work performance
Facilitate Quality Assurance process
Participate in workplace health and safety risk control process
Facilitate hygiene and sanitation performance
Conduct an internal audit of a documented program
Participate in the ongoing development and implementation of a HACCP and Quality Assurance system
Identify, evaluate and control food safety hazards
Conduct food safety audits
Develop and implement Quality Assurance program for a rendering plant
Apply meat science
Oversee plant compliance with the Australian Standards for meat processing
Participate in product recall

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Manage own work performance
Facilitate Quality Assurance process
Participate in workplace health and safety risk control process
Facilitate hygiene and sanitation performance
Supervise new recruits
Promote innovation in a team environment
Facilitate achievement of enterprise environmental policies and goals
Foster a learning culture in a meat enterprise
Build productive and effective workplace relationships
Lead communication in the workplace
Participate in product recall
Manage and maintain a food safety plan

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Manage own work performance
Facilitate Quality Assurance process
Participate in workplace health and safety risk control process
Facilitate hygiene and sanitation performance
Oversee plant compliance with the Australian standards for meat processing
Oversee export requirements
Contribute to abattoir design and construction processes
Oversee humane handling of animals
Establish sampling program
Supervise new recruits
Conduct food safety audits
Assess competence

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Comply with Quality Assurance and HACCP requirements
Follow safe work policies and procedures
Communicate in the workplace
Overview the meat industry
Apply animal welfare and handling requirements
Handle livestock using basic techniques
Prepare animals for slaughter
Feed race
Restrain animal
Perform emergency kill
Handle working dogs in stock yards
Handle animals humanely while conducting ante-mortem inspection
Perform ante-mortem inspection and make disposition
Overview of the NLIS for sheep and goats
Manage NLIS data for sheep and goats in lairage
Manage NLIS for saleyard purchase of sheep or goats
Follow and implement an established work plan
Identify and report emergency diseases of food animals
Conduct an internal audit of a documented program

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Apply hygiene and sanitation practices
Comply with Quality Assurance and HACCP requirements
Follow safe work policies and procedures
Communicate in the workplace
Overview the meat industry
Use numerical applications in the workplace
Handle materials and products
Clean work area during operations
Inspect hindquarter and remove contamination
Inspect forequarter and remove contamination
Rotate stored meat
Rotate meat product
Sharpen knives
Trim meat to specifications
Prepare and slice meat cuts
Assess product in chillers
Operate mixer or blender unit
Maintain production records
Sort meat
Batch meat
Prepare product formulations
Ferment and mature product
Blend meat product
Smoke product
Identify and repair equipment faults
Provide work skill instruction