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relevant work health and safety, animal welfare and biosecurity requirements relevant codes of practice and industry standards for mulesing reasons and requirements for mulesing in sheepbody condition scoring (BCS), breech wrinkle scoring (BRWR) and breech cover scoring (BCOV) in lambs and adult sheepmethods and strategies of flystrike controleffects of weather, environmental, facility, flock, individual animal and human factors on mulesing operationsuse and maintenance of materials and equipment for mulesingprinciples and maintenance of hygiene in mulesing operationsmethods and techniques for handling and restraint of adult sheep and lambsuse of pain relief and insecticide treatment in mulesing procedures anatomy and external features of sheephealth and animal welfare implications of post mulesing complications in sheepsigns of ill health and related management strategies in sheepuse of and regulatory considerations for the use of disinfectantsrelevant care, husbandry and management strategies for sheep flocks relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice, including those relating to work health and safety, animal welfare, veterinary practitioner/surgeons’ Acts, stock diseases and waste disposal, agricultural and veterinary chemical use