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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Explain organisation requirements for clip preparation
   • Explain the organisation's requirements for quality and standard of wool clip preparation to the wool handlers
   • Explain the organisation's procedures for operating safely and for the use of personal protective equipment to the wool handlers
   • Explain the impact of contamination in the wool to the wool handlers
   • Introduce or indicate the key personnel in the wool shed or room to the wool handlers
   • Allocate and explain responsibilities for specific functions or procedures are to wool handlers
   • Identify work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement suitable controls
   • Confirm that all personal protective equipment and clothing is selected, used and maintained appropriately by wool handlers
2. Supervise shed hands
   • Monitor board persons performance including picking up and throwing fleece, sweeping board and preparing non fleece wools
   • Monitor wool handlers performance to ensure they follow the set procedures for each of the clip preparation tasks
   • Monitor penner up performance to ensure mobs are handled humanely in line with animal welfare policies and kept separate, and catching pens are monitored and filled as required
   • Monitor wool pressers' activities including keeping wool press area clean, pressing, branding, weighing and recording bale details in the wool book
3. Oversee preparation of wool
   • Supervise shed staff to maintain a clear board and ensure fleeces are thrown correctly
   • Supervise shed staff in the removal and preparation of fleece wool

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 hazards and implement safe work practices

explain clip preparation requirements to shed staff and monitor their performance

oversee shed staff to ensure quality clip preparation

communicate preparation requirements with shed staff

implement enterprise animal welfare policies

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge of:

features of the parts of fleece

procedures for handling skirtings, bellies, lambs wool, premature shorn wool, locks and crutchings, and stained wool and oddments

responsibilities of board and table staff

characteristics of different wool types and parts of the fleece

premiums and discounts for wool characteristics

pressing and branding requirements

skirting technique and appropriate skirting ratios for different clip types

personal protective clothing and equipment requirements for shed staff

on job training techniques

principles of staff supervision

requirements of work health and safety legislation and animal welfare codes of practice

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