AMPAUD401 - Conduct an animal welfare audit of a meat processing premises
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AMPAUD401 Conduct an animal welfare audit of a meat processing premises
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Version 1.0 Issue Date: May 2024
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Identify and interpret relevant regulations and legislation about animal welfare/cruelty
Identify the responsibilities of business operators and personnel under relevant legislation
Identify relevant animal welfare standards, voluntary codes of practice and quality systems
Identify sections of Acts, regulations, voluntary codes of practice or equivalent standards relevant to species being processed
Identify relevant and applicable animal welfare measures for receival, lairage, stunning and slaughtering during audit
Audit Approved Arrangement or equivalent quality assurance systems for compliance with customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
Identify and confirm that workplace procedures for livestock receival, unloading, lairage, handling, restraining, stunning, slaughter, personnel training and animal welfare monitoring comply with relevant regulations and standards
Check the establishment's Approved Arrangement to ensure that it incorporates procedures and practices that enable compliance with customer, corporate and regulatory requirements
Audit the unloading and receival or ante-mortem inspection, sorting and yarding against workplace, customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
Identify facilities and equipment as operational and appropriately maintained, and confirm their suitability for use
Assess inputs into the welfare of livestock in lairage against regulatory, customer and workplace requirements, including facilities, handling practices, inspections, access to feed and water and pen density
Assess welfare of animals against pre-determined welfare measures
Access workplace requirements for suspect, sick, injured or uncooperative stock
Assess the handling of suspect, sick, injured or uncooperative stock against workplace and customer standards and regulatory requirements
Review inputs into the stunning process, including equipment maintenance, training and facilities, for compliance with workplace standards and regulatory requirements
Assess effectiveness of restraint and stunning against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
Assess monitoring of effective stunning by company personnel against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
Observe and assess the bleeding process for compliance with workplace and regulatory requirements
Assess bodies on the bleed chain for insensibility
Observe operators to ensure they are complying with workplace procedures, including checking for an effective stun
Review routine monitoring records for livestock handling, stunning and effective slaughter to ensure compliance with workplace, regulatory and customer requirements
Review internal audit records to assess control of animal welfare outcomes, including training of personnel
Assess effectiveness of preventative and corrective action programs
Access workplace livestock contingency plans
Review and assess contingency plans for livestock emergencies against regulatory and standard requirements
Interpret audit schedule and plan and organise the timely conduct of audit
Determine objectives, scope and criteria of audit according to workplace requirements
Assemble and brief audit team, as required, for the objectives, scope and criteria of the audit
Notify those affected by and involved in the audit, and document responsibilities according to workplace requirements
Notify stakeholders involved in an internal audit according to workplace requirements
Identify procedures, records and workplace documentation needed for the audit
Document evidence collection methods and sources to be used in the audit, including developing workplace checklists to workplace specifications
Conduct a document review prior to audit
Prepare an audit report, detailing areas of the program that were audited and findings against the audit criteria, including non-conformances where applicable
Document objective evidence according to workplace standards
Keep records of audit process, objective evidence and findings according to workplace and regulatory requirements
Report findings according to workplace requirements
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