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Evidence Guide: SFIAQU208 - Produce algal or live-feed cultures

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SFIAQU208 - Produce algal or live-feed cultures

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Harvest culture

  1. Collect harvesting equipment and check for serviceability
  2. Clean and sanitise collection vessels before and after use according to workplace procedures
  3. Harvest required quantity and transfer to feed cultured stock
Collect harvesting equipment and check for serviceability

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Clean and sanitise collection vessels before and after use according to workplace procedures

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Harvest required quantity and transfer to feed cultured stock

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Prepare for production

  1. Confirm instructions for production schedule with supervisor
  2. Collect required production equipment, including personal protective equipment, and check for serviceability
  3. Perform workplace personal hygiene and equipment sanitation procedures
Confirm instructions for production schedule with supervisor

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Collect required production equipment, including personal protective equipment, and check for serviceability

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Perform workplace personal hygiene and equipment sanitation procedures

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Initiate and maintain cultures

  1. Prepare, fill and inoculate culture vessels according to workplace procedures
  2. Maintain the requirements of the culture organism for the culture period
  3. Monitor the health of the culture organism and report irregularities to supervisor
  4. Collect harvesting equipment and check for serviceability
  5. Clean and sanitise collection vessels before and after use according to workplace procedures
  6. Harvest required quantity and transfer to feed cultured stock
Prepare, fill and inoculate culture vessels according to workplace procedures

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Maintain the requirements of the culture organism for the culture period

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Monitor the health of the culture organism and report irregularities to supervisor

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Collect harvesting equipment and check for serviceability

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Clean and sanitise collection vessels before and after use according to workplace procedures

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Harvest required quantity and transfer to feed cultured stock

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Complete post-culture production activities

  1. Clean work area and dispose of waste materials safely according to
  2. Clean and sanitise culture vessels according to hygiene and equipment sanitation procedures
  3. Check and store tools and equipment, reporting any identified repair requirements to supervisor
  4. Record relevant data and observations and report any abnormal records to supervisor
Clean work area and dispose of waste materials safely according to

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Clean and sanitise culture vessels according to hygiene and equipment sanitation procedures

Completed
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Check and store tools and equipment, reporting any identified repair requirements to supervisor

Completed
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Record relevant data and observations and report any abnormal records to supervisor

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Required Skills and Knowledge

An individual demonstrating competency must satisfy all of the elements and performance criteria in this unit.

There must be evidence that the individual has produced and harvested algal or live-feed cultures on at least one occasion, including:

maintaining personal hygiene and equipment sanitation throughout culture production and harvest

communicating with and reporting to supervisor on production activities

inoculating and establishing culture

monitoring and maintaining the health and growing conditions of cultures

preparing, operating and maintaining production and harvest equipment

using personal protective equipment

completing accurate records on culture production

cleaning up work area and storing tools and equipment post-culture-production.

An individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge required to perform the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:

culture periods and lifecycles of culture organisms

purpose and operation of algal or live-feed culture production and harvest equipment

basic physicochemical requirements of the culture organisms

hygiene, health and safety and environmental requirements for producing and harvesting algal or live-feed cultures

biosecurity in relation to producing algal and live-feed cultures.