Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for trapping
- Identify purpose of animal capture and set objectives
- Confirm the location and size of the area designated for trapping activities
- Confirm target animal movement patterns, behaviour and lifecycles to determine trapping location and placement of equipment and appropriate timing of trapping activity
- Identify potential non-target animals
- Estimate time required to complete trapping
- Identify and check vehicles, materials and equipment required for trapping
- Select appropriate traps for target animal and the environment
- Clean, maintain and prepare trapping equipment
- Identify hazards associated with trapping and select appropriate personal protective equipment
- Identify and manage environmental risks associated with trapping animals
- Obtain relevant permissions to enter property
- Determine precautions for minimising trapping of non-target animals
- Place and set traps
- Undertake site surveillance prior to setting traps
- Select and prepare site to maximise opportunity for trapping target animals and minimise the chance of trapping non-target animals
- Position, set and calibrate trapping equipment and check it for strength and security
- Apply lures, decoys, baits or toxins as necessary
- Camouflage traps as required
- Apply precautions to prevent trapping of non-target animals
- Set traps in accordance with legislative requirements and animal welfare codes of practice
- Check and remove traps
- Inspect traps at the required frequency
- Identify trapped animals then release, humanely destroy or prepare for transport as required
- Handle captured animals humanely and in accordance with animal welfare codes of practice
- Transport animals from site, when required, in a safe and appropriate manner
- Observe work health and safety procedures and public safety requirements prior to and during trapping activities
- Release trap mechanism safely and remove trap
- Restore trap-site to its prior condition
- Record data
- Clean and store equipment and material
- Report completion of work