Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify relevant animal welfare regulations and standards
- Identify and interpret relevant regulations and legislation about animal welfare/cruelty
- Identify the responsibilities of business operators and personnel under relevant legislation
- Identify relevant animal welfare standards, voluntary codes of practice and quality systems
- Identify sections of acts, regulations, voluntary Codes of Practice or equivalent standards relevant to species being processed
- Identify relevant and applicable animal welfare measures for receival, lairage, stunning and slaughtering during audit
- Audit the animal welfare component of an Approved Arrangement for compliance with regulatory and relevant standard requirements
- Audit Approved Arrangement or equivalent quality assurance systems for compliance with customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
- Identify and confirm that workplace procedures for livestock receival, unloading, lairage, handling, restraining, stunning, slaughter, personnel training and animal welfare monitoring comply with relevant regulations and standards
- Audit transport and unloading arrangements for livestock
- Check the establishment's Approved Arrangement to ensure that it incorporates procedures and practices that enable compliance with customer, corporate and regulatory requirements
- Audit the unloading and receival or ante-mortem inspection, sorting and yarding against workplace, customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
- Identify facilities and equipment as operational, appropriately maintained and confirm their suitability for use
- Audit management of livestock in lairage prior to slaughter
- Audit treatment of sick/injured or uncooperative animals
- Audit stunning of livestock
- Review inputs into the stunning process including equipment maintenance, training and facilities for compliance with work place, standards and regulatory requirements
- Assess effectiveness of restraint and stunning against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
- Assess monitoring of effective stunning by company personnel against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
- Audit slaughtering and shackling
- Audit animal welfare monitoring, internal auditing, corrective and preventative action program
- Review routine monitoring records for livestock handling, stunning and effective slaughter to ensure compliance with workplace, regulatory and customer requirements
- Review internal audit records to assess control of animal welfare outcomes, including training of personnel
- Assess effectiveness of preventative and corrective action programs
- Audit contingency arrangements
- Plan for an animal welfare audit
- Interpret audit schedule and plan and organise the timely conduct of audit
- Determine objectives, scope and criteria of audit according to workplace requirements
- Assemble and brief audit team (if applicable), as required, for the objectives, scope and criteria of the audit
- Notify those affected by and involved in the audit and document responsibilities according to workplace requirements
- Notify stakeholders involved in an internal audit according to workplace requirements
- Identify procedures, records and workplace documentation needed for the audit
- Document evidence collection methods and sources to be used in the audit, including developing workplace checklists to workplace specifications
- Conduct a document review prior to audit
- Report outcomes of an animal welfare audit
- Prepare an audit report, detailing areas of the program which were audited and findings against the audit criteria, including non-conformances, where applicable
- Document objective evidence according to workplace standards
- Keep records of audit process, objective evidence and findings in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
- Report findings according to workplace requirements
- Identify relevant animal welfare regulations and standards
- Identify and interpret relevant regulations and legislation about animal welfare/cruelty
- Identify the responsibilities of business operators and personnel under relevant legislation
- Identify relevant animal welfare standards, voluntary codes of practice and quality systems
- Identify sections of acts, regulations, voluntary Codes of Practice or equivalent standards relevant to species being processed
- Identify relevant and applicable animal welfare measures for receival, lairage, stunning and slaughtering during audit
- Audit the animal welfare component of an Approved Arrangement for compliance with regulatory and relevant standard requirements
- Audit Approved Arrangement or equivalent quality assurance systems for compliance with customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
- Identify and confirm that workplace procedures for livestock receival, unloading, lairage, handling, restraining, stunning, slaughter, personnel training and animal welfare monitoring comply with relevant regulations and standards
- Audit transport and unloading arrangements for livestock
- Check the establishment's Approved Arrangement to ensure that it incorporates procedures and practices that enable compliance with customer, corporate and regulatory requirements
- Audit the unloading and receival or ante-mortem inspection, sorting and yarding against workplace, customer, commercial and regulatory requirements
- Identify facilities and equipment as operational, appropriately maintained and confirm their suitability for use
- Audit management of livestock in lairage prior to slaughter
- Audit treatment of sick/injured or uncooperative animals
- Audit stunning of livestock
- Review inputs into the stunning process including equipment maintenance, training and facilities for compliance with work place, standards and regulatory requirements
- Assess effectiveness of restraint and stunning against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
- Assess monitoring of effective stunning by company personnel against workplace, customer and regulatory requirements
- Audit slaughtering and shackling
- Audit animal welfare monitoring, internal auditing, corrective and preventative action program
- Review routine monitoring records for livestock handling, stunning and effective slaughter to ensure compliance with workplace, regulatory and customer requirements
- Review internal audit records to assess control of animal welfare outcomes, including training of personnel
- Assess effectiveness of preventative and corrective action programs
- Audit contingency arrangements
- Plan for an animal welfare audit
- Interpret audit schedule and plan and organise the timely conduct of audit
- Determine objectives, scope and criteria of audit according to workplace requirements
- Assemble and brief audit team (if applicable), as required, for the objectives, scope and criteria of the audit
- Notify those affected by and involved in the audit and document responsibilities according to workplace requirements
- Notify stakeholders involved in an internal audit according to workplace requirements
- Identify procedures, records and workplace documentation needed for the audit
- Document evidence collection methods and sources to be used in the audit, including developing workplace checklists to workplace specifications
- Conduct a document review prior to audit
- Report outcomes of an animal welfare audit
- Prepare an audit report, detailing areas of the program which were audited and findings against the audit criteria, including non-conformances, where applicable
- Document objective evidence according to workplace standards
- Keep records of audit process, objective evidence and findings in accordance with workplace and regulatory requirements
- Report findings according to workplace requirements