AHCPLY211 — Collect, store and handle eggs from breeder flocks

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What an assessment for AHCPLY211 must cover

69 assessable components: 4 elements (28 performance criteria), 25 performance evidence and 13 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 3 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Prepare to handle eggs

1.1Confirm and follow personal hygiene and other biosecurity procedures that apply to entering and working on a poultry breeding farm or facility
1.2Identify health and safety hazards, assess risks, and control and/or report risks related to handling, collecting, sorting, packing and storing eggs
1.3Select and fit appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) required for handling, collecting, sorting, packing and storing eggs
1.4Check work area and equipment are clean and ready for operation

2 Collect and sort eggs

2.1Ensure nests and egg belts are free of sick, injured or dead birds and other obstructions using safe and low stress animal handling techniques
2.2Collect eggs manually or mechanically from nesting system
2.3Collect floor eggs and keep separate
2.4Operate egg handling equipment and control flow of eggs according to enterprise procedures
2.5Remove very dirty, cracked, leaking or weak-shelled eggs manually or mechanically
2.6Wash eggs as required using approved sanitisers and temperatures
2.7Sort eggs into settable and non-settable and categories within each

3 Pack and store eggs

3.1Place eggs on appropriate trays with pointed end down
3.2Assemble and stack trays in categories, and label according to enterprise procedures
3.3Transfer eggs to storage in order of age, category or dispatch order
3.4Operate egg storage facilities and/or cool rooms according to enterprise procedures
3.5Fumigate eggs if required
3.6Separate all eggs selected for human consumption according to state/territory legislative requirements
3.7Complete records according to enterprise requirements

4 Clean and/or sanitise work areas and equipment

4.1Identify health and safety hazards, assess risks, and control and/or report risks associated with cleaning and/or sanitising work areas and equipment
4.2Select and fit appropriate PPE required for cleaning and/ or sanitising
4.3Measure chemicals and prepare cleaning fluids safely according to supplier instructions and enterprise procedures
4.4Check and prepare cleaning equipment
4.5Clean and disinfect or sanitise egg belts/conveyors, equipment and work area
4.6Check, clean and sanitise cool room and related equipment if required
4.7Take and prepare swab and/or samples for testing as required
4.8Dispose of non-settable eggs and waste according to enterprise biosecurity and environmental procedures
4.9Check for pests, vermin and/or predators and implement controls if required, according to enterprise procedures
4.10Complete records and report issues promptly

Performance evidence

An individual demonstrating competency must satisfy all of the elements and performance criteria in this unit.
There must be evidence that the individual has safely and efficiently collected, sorted and stored at least three different batches of fertile eggs from a breeder flock. Each batch must be at least 20 eggs.
For each batch, the individual must have, according to enterprise requirements:
confirmed and applied enterprise health and safety, animal welfare, infection control, biosecurity and environmental protection procedures related to handling, processing and storing eggs
followed personal hygiene requirements
identified at least two health and safety hazards, and assessed and controlled and/or reported associated risks
selected, checked and correctly fitted appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
checked nest boxes and egg belts and removed obstructions
matched egg collection equipment flow rate to handling rate
collected nest eggs
collected and separated floor eggs
assessed and sorted eggs into settable and non-settable and categories within each
operated egg washing equipment according to manufacturer instructions
placed eggs on trays pointed end down
correctly packed and labelled eggs
transferred and/or stored eggs
safely handled and mixed cleaning products and prepared cleaning equipment
cleaned and sanitised egg sorting equipment, egg washing equipment, cool rooms and work areas, including conveyors and shed surfaces.
For at least one batch, the individual must also have, according to enterprise procedures:
correctly operated egg storage facility or cool room
fumigated eggs
checked work area for pests, vermin and predators and implemented at least two appropriate control measures
removed and/or disposed of non-settable eggs and waste products
separated eggs selected for human consumption
accurately completed records and reported issues.

Knowledge evidence

key features of state/territory legislation, regulations and codes of practice for worker health and safety, animal welfare, infection control, biosecurity and environmental protection that apply to working with poultry, and handling, processing and storing settable eggs
enterprise procedures and requirements for worker health and safety, animal welfare, infection control, biosecurity and environmental protection that apply to working with poultry, and handling, processing and storing settable eggs
government food safety regulations and codes that apply to eggs produced and sold for human consumption
industry standards and codes of practice, and enterprise procedures for collecting, handling, sorting, packing and storing settable eggs and eggs selected for human consumption
types, uses, cleaning and maintenance of machinery and equipment used to collect, sort, label, pack, transport and store settable eggs and eggs selected for human consumption
criteria for sorting and determining eggs that are unfit for setting or eggs selected for human consumption, and disposal methods
procedures for egg handling, collection, washing, sorting, packing, labelling, storage and fumigation
temperature, humidity, cleaning and operation for cool rooms
procedures for handling, measurement and usage of cleaning chemicals, disinfectants and sanitisers
procedures for taking and handling swab and egg samples for testing
enterprise procedures for disposal and management of waste, including biosecurity and environmental requirements
commonly used methods of pest, vermin and predator control in poultry and egg production
enterprise documentation, records and reports required for collection, processing and storage of settable eggs and eggs selected for human consumption.

Foundation skills

Reading: Interpret key information from enterprise biosecurity procedures, and equipment cleaning and operation instructions
Writing: Use industry terminology to record information about fertile and non-fertile eggs
Numeracy: Measure and calculate quantity, time, weight, temperature, volume and ratio

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