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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify cleaning problems
   • Establish hygiene practices through interview and shed records
   • Establish bacterial levels for the plant from factory test results and identify potential cleaning problems
   • Identify residues and other evidence of poor cleaning regimes by Inspecting and disassembling milking equipment
   • Establish cleaning and hygiene regimes and identify cleaning chemicals to be used
   • Determine water quality and quantity for optimal cleaning outcomes
   • Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks, implement control measures and keep records
2. Carry out cleaning routines
   • Carry out manufacturer specified machine and ancillary equipment cleaning routines
   • Carry out manufacturer specified vat cleaning routines
   • Monitor water temperature and circulating chemical concentrations throughout the cleaning cycle
   • Remove milk stone and other accumulated residues by manually cleaning milking facility equipment
3. Determine chemicals and cleaning routines
   • Determine and document suitable cleaning routines in consultation with equipment manufacturer and chemical company
   • Determine and record cleaning routine and hygiene regime for the milking facility and all installations
   • Evaluate cleaning routine and hygiene regime to ensure that equipment and cleaning performance meets established performance specifications

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.

The candidate must provide evidence that they can:

identify cleaning problems

carry out cleaning routines

determine chemicals and cleaning routines

apply enterprise work health and safety policies

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

types, functions, cleaning, monitoring and maintenance of milking machines, milking machine components and milking facility equipment

requirements, criteria and assessment methods for optimal performance of milking machines and their components

possible faults, problems and poor performance with milking machines and their components, impacts on milking operations and corrective actions for these faults and problems

requirements, criteria, procedures, routines and assessment methods for optimal cleaning and hygiene of milking machines and their components

types, handling, use and disposal of detergents and cleaning agents, work health and safety and environmental practices for these agents

relevant work health and safety requirements

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