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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Skirt pulled fleeces
   • Skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace health and safety and workplace requirements.
   • Segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions.
   • Store skirtings in accordance with workplace requirements.
   • Shear large skin pieces, where required.
   • Maintain mob separation of fleece wool.
   • Select and dry sample fleeces where required.
2. Weigh fleeces
   • Weigh fleeces and record results, where required.

Range Statement

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Performance Evidence

The candidate must skirt and weigh fellmongered wool.

The candidate must:

identify all types of wool to be skirted including bellies, legs, coloured wool and stained wool as well as skin and fat pieces

skirt fleeces in accordance with workplace and wool classer's requirements

maintain mob separation

segregate skirtings in accordance with classer's instructions

select and dry sample of fleeces where part of workplace requirements

apply relevant regulatory requirements

use communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate a basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of:

relevant safety procedures

wools to be skirted from fleeces

workplace health and safety, and Quality Assurance (QA) requirements for skirting wool

purpose of skirting and classing

purpose of storing fleeces in their mobs

steps in skirting and classing fleece wool

use of skins and pulled wool

workplace requirements for skirting wool

relevant regulatory requirements.

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