Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to catch or pick up poultry
- Follow biosecurity procedures
- Confirm and identify sheds, flocks and bird numbers to be caught and loaded
- Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls
- Select, use and maintain suitable personal protective equipment
- Dim lights and set ventilation and cooling appropriately
- Raise feeders, drinkers, nests and perches as required
- Check and ensure that catching, movement path and vehicle loading area is clear of all obstacles
- Set up catching equipment according to age, stock type and production system
- Select, use and maintain tools and equipment
- Follow relevant work health and safety and animal welfare procedures
- Catch or pick up poultry
- Complete hygiene and administration activities