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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify animals
   • Criteria for animal selection are identified and clarified from production and marketing information and supervisor or management instructions.
   • Procedures to control and sort livestock are conducted with due care in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and animal welfare requirements.
   • Animals are identified and separated according to unit selection criteria.
   • Identification devices are safely and humanely applied and used on animals according to industry practice and the code of welfare.
   • OHS hazards in the workplace are recognised, risks are assessed and controls implemented.
2. Assess and select animals
   • Animals are accurately assessed according to industry and/or enterprise criteria and guidelines.
   • Procedures to control and sort livestock are conducted with due care in accordance with OHS and animal welfare requirements.
   • Animals are correctly ranked and selected using performance records, weight, sex or other organisational criteria.
   • Selection is reliably and accurately recorded and reported to unit management.
   • Suitable personal protective equipment (PPE) is selected, used and maintained in accordance with OHS requirements.
   • All accepted guidelines and industry norms for prescribed medication withholding periods are observed when selecting animals.
   • Records and documentation required by the enterprise are completed clearly, accurately and promptly.

Required Skills

Required skills

identify OHS hazards and implement safe work practices recognise animals unfit for transport provide due care in the handling of livestock recognise livestock abnormalities select animals according to criteria draft livestock read and comprehend oral and written information and instructions write basic statements and maintain livestock handling records read and interpret cost sheets production information target statistics quantities of feed and other inputs and job performance audits prepare and present production and other information in a manner that is readily accessible for both management and operators use oral communication skillslanguage competence to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation including questioning techniques active listening clarifying information and consulting with supervisors as required use numeracy skills to estimate calculate and record routine workplace measures use interpersonal skills to work with and relate to people from a range of cultural social and religious backgrounds and with a range of physical and mental abilities

Required knowledge

handling techniques and restraint methods animal movement and drafting livestock characteristics relevant to drafting selection criteria for breeding stock livestock identification systems and devices livestock behaviour environmental codes of practice with regard to livestock production enterprise and industry gradingselection animal identification procedures OHS and animal welfare legislative and enterprise requirements

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package
Overview of assessment
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to workplace operations and satisfy holistically all of the requirements of the performance criteria and required skills and knowledge and include achievement of the following identify criteria for animal selection control and sort livestock safely and humanely apply identification devices appraise and grade animals provide due care in the handling of livestock recognise livestock abnormalities
Context of and specific resources for assessment	Competency requires the application of work practices under work conditions Selection and use of resources for some worksites may differ due to the regional or enterprise circumstances

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole.
Livestock may include:	beef cattle dairy cattle sheep goats pigs for the purpose of sorting of animals for sale, breeding or for other enterprise requirements.

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