Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for inoculation
- Confirm job requirements
- Identify health and safety in the workplace hazards and controls according to workplace procedures
- Select and fit personal protective equipment according to job requirements
- Identify and confirm propagation requirements
- Prepare yeast and bacterial cultures for use according to workplace procedures
- Confirm availability and prepare product, services and materials to meet specified propagation requirements
- Prepare equipment for culture preparation
- Maintain and monitor the propagation process
- Conduct transfer operations to meet propagation requirements
- Conduct the culture propagation process using safe work practices
- Inoculate ferments following work instruction
- Monitor control points to confirm performance is maintained within specification
- Monitor equipment to confirm operating condition
- Identify and address non-conformance of product, process and equipment
- Complete propagation activities
- Complete propagation process according to workplace procedures
- Dismantle equipment safely and prepare for cleaning
- Collect, treat and dispose of or recycle waste generated by both the process and cleaning procedures
- Conduct work according to workplace environmental guidelines
- Record workplace information according to workplace procedures and format