Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify packing, handling and storage requirements for perishable food products
- Identify requirements and performance measures for packing, handling and storing perishable food products
- Identify current best practice for packing, handling and storing perishable food products, and assess comparative performance of workplace practices
- Identify features and operational processes of equipment used for handling, packing and storing perishable food products
- Identify customer and legal requirements of packing, handling and storing perishable food products
- Use packing materials confirmed as suitable for perishable food products
- Specify packing, handling and storage processes
- Identify equipment and facilities available for packing, handling and storing perishable food products
- Conduct cost-benefit analysis to determine suitable storage equipment and facilities for operations
- Specify equipment and facilities needed for work operations
- Specify processes for packing, handling and storing perishable food products
- Specify processes in accordance with workplace environmental guidelines
- Specify labelling and documentation requirements according to workplace procedures
- Document workplace processes and operating procedures and communicate them to personnel
- Manage problems with perishable food products
- Identify common problems with perishable products and determine their likely causes
- Assess equipment and procedures to identify contributing factors to food problems
- Identify and address problems in accordance with workplace procedures
- Document out-of-specification processes or outcomes
- Identify and investigate opportunities for improvement
- Develop and implement proposals for improvement