Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for wool classing
- Arrange the layout of the shed, equipment and facilities according to the determined classing strategy for efficient wool flow, quality management and pressing
- Identify potential and existing work health and safety hazards, assess risks and implement control measures
- Place clearly labelled bins and containers in line with the classing strategy, quality management system and enterprise requirements
- Establish and maintain sufficient staffing ratio
- Carry out classing of fleece wool
- Identify hazards, apply safe working practices and use available safety equipment
- Handle and skirt fleece wool to the required standards
- Check wool to ensure freedom from contamination and stain
- Check wool to ensure adequate and optimum skirting
- Assess pigmented fibre risk and keep wool separate as required
- Identify wet wool, stained, cotted and coloured wool and keep separate
- Appraise wool for its characteristics
- Class wool to standards of the enterprise classing strategy, the Code of Practice and as required by alternative selling methods
- Identify wool of higher and lower market value and processing requirements and make lines to maximise return to the wool owner
- Place wool in bins for pressing