Application
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to produce tallow from rendered meat product.
This unit is applicable to workers in rendering plants.
All work should be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, customer requirements and product specifications.
This unit applies to individuals who work under broad direction and take responsibility for their own work including limited responsibility for the work of others. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable problems.
No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements are known to apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit must be delivered and assessed in the context of Australian meat processing standards and regulations.
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Press extracted tallow from cooked meal | 1.1 Monitor flow of cooked waste 1.2 Operate and monitor presses in accordance with work instructions 1.3 Identify and comply with workplace health and safety requirements |
2. Process tallow | 2.1 Carry out start-up and shut-down procedures in accordance with workplace requirements 2.2 Monitor screening of solids from tallow 2.3 Separate tallow 2.4 Take tallow samples 2.5 Visually monitor tallow quality and provide feedback to supervisor 2.6 Follow work instructions for tallow production 2.7 Follow workplace health and safety procedures |
3. Ensure the quality of tallow | 3.1 Identify tallow specifications 3.2 Monitor processing conditions that affect tallow quality |
4. Contain spillage | 4.1 Contain any spillage of tallow in accordance with workplace requirements |
Evidence of Performance
The candidate must produce tallow from rendered meat product.
The candidate must:
apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
operate the tallow processing plant to workplace requirements
apply relevant regulatory requirements
comply with workplace health and safety requirements
monitor quality of tallow
monitor tallow processing
identify production problems and out-of-specification product and take corrective action
Evidence of Knowledge
The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:
basic principles of tallow processing
workplace health and safety requirements associated with tallow processing plant
Quality Assurance (QA) requirements associated with tallow processing plant
relevant regulatory requirements
Assessment Conditions
Assessment must be conducted in a registered, operating meat rendering plant.
Competency must be demonstrated at the normal rate of production for that rendering plant.
As a minimum, the following three forms of assessment must be used:
quiz of underpinning knowledge
workplace demonstration
workplace referee or third-party report of performance over time
Assessors must satisfy the current standards for RTOs.
Foundation Skills
Foundation Skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.