Elements and Performance Criteria
- Perform stable duties and identify potential hazards
- Review racing stable operations and procedures to ensure understanding and compliance
- Identify, select and correctly fit appropriate personal protective equipment according to safe work practices
- Clean stables and yards and replace bedding according to stable routine
- Clean, sweep or rake stable environment and yards
- Identify and report hazards in the workplace to nominated person according to workplace policies and procedures
- Provide feed and water to horses
- Identify common feedstuffs accurately
- Prepare and provide feed and water according to stable routine
- Identify, remove and report contaminated feed according to workplace policies and procedures
- Observe and report variations to individual eating and drinking patterns
- Ensure correct feed and additives are prepared and fed to the correct horse, knowing and understanding consequences of errors
- Groom horses
- Assess hazards and potential risks to self, others and horse and take steps to minimise prior to handling and grooming horses
- Position and tie up horses in preparation for grooming, using safe horse handling techniques
- Groom horses according to instructions
- Check horses for illness or injury during grooming, and report irregularities according to workplace policies and procedures
- Clean and maintain grooming tools according to workplace procedures
- Clean and dress horse hooves following stable routine
- Monitor basic health and welfare of horses
- Observe, identify and report signs of a healthy or unhealthy horse according to workplace procedures
- Follow stable hygiene and quarantine practices according to workplace procedures
- Check horse hooves and legs for soreness, inflammation and lameness and report to nominated person according to workplace policies and procedures