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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Follow biosecurity requirements
   • Follow personal hygiene requirements such as washing and sanitising hands
   • Follow enterprise work health and safety policies
   • Select, use and maintain appropriate personal protective equipment and clothing
   • Check & clean work area
   • Check equipment is clean and working correctly
2. Collect eggs
   • Ensure that nests and egg belts are free of sick or injured birds, carcasses and other obstructions in line with enterprise animal welfare policies
   • Control flow of eggs to match handling rate
   • Remove heavily marked, dirty, cracked, leakers or weak shelled eggs and useless eggs
   • Collect eggs by placing eggs onto trays or into baskets
3. Pack and store eggs
   • Pack eggs, keeping production categories separate and wrap pallets as required ready for transport
   • Label packed eggs, pallets and all packing requirements correctly
   • Check cool room temperature and humidity
   • Transfer eggs to cool room or grading floor
4. Clean and sanitise equipment and sites
   • Clean and sanitise egg belts/conveyors and all equipment and work areas
   • Clean and sanitise cool room and equipment
   • Control pests in egg collection, packing and storage areas
   • Handle and measure chemicals used in the washing and cleaning equipment safely
   • Take samples for testing if required
   • Dispose of non-conforming eggs and waste according to enterprise environmental management requirements
   • Complete records clearly and accurately

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:

apply personal hygiene requirements

check nest boxes and egg belts are free of obstructions

match egg collection equipment flow rate to handling rate

collect eggs

assess and sort eggs

pack and store eggs

clean and sanitise equipment, cool rooms and work area

check equipment is working correctly

follow enterprise work health and safety policies

follow biosecurity requirements

follow animal welfare policies

follow enterprise environmental management requirements

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

industry standards, codes of practice, and enterprise procedures for collecting, handling, sorting, packing and storing eggs

commonly used methods of pest and vermin control

relevant documentation and records that are required

types, uses, cleaning, maintenance and servicing of equipment and machines

criteria for sorting and determining eggs that are unfit for sale and disposal methods

temperature, humidity, cleaning and operation for cool rooms

procedures for taking and handling egg samples for testing

relevant environmental and sustainability requirements, and procedures for disposal and management of wastes, debris and run-offs

relevant work health and safety, biosecurity and animal welfare requirements

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