Certificate IV in Meat Safety Inspection - AMP40522
South West TAFE
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS:
This qualification reflects the role of individuals working as meat inspectors or meat safety officers in meat processing establishments. In such roles, workers perform post-mortem inspection of food animals and in some cases ante-mortem inspection to ensure that meat is safe for human or pet consumption, in line with relevant Australian Standards.At this level workers provide specialist technical skills and knowledge about food animal disease and conditions. They are required to work autonomously, use judgement, interpret information, and apply solutions to routine and some non-routine problems. They may take some responsibility for the output of others.Individuals who work as meat inspectors must comply with the requirements of local/state/territory authorities and where applicable the Australian Government export authority. Users must check with the relevant regulatory authority before delivery.
Subjects
- Apply communication strategies in the workplace
- Monitor workplace health and safety processes
- Oversee humane handling of animals
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Camels
- Contribute to meat processing premises design and construction processes
- Apply food animal anatomy and physiology to inspection processes
- Conduct food safety audits
- Manage own work performance and development
- Monitor meat preservation process
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Deer
- Recognise signs of emergency and notifiable animal diseases
- Communicate and negotiate to conduct food safety audits
- Handle animals humanely while conducting ante-mortem inspection
- Support food safety and quality programs
- Raise and validate requests for export permits and Meat Transfer Certificates
- Sharpen and handle knives safely
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Alpacas or Llamas
- Receive and inspect wild game carcases from the field
- Maintain good manufacturing practice in meat processing
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Ovine and Caprine
- Recognise diseases and conditions during inspection of food animal
- Perform post-mortem inspection - Wild game
- Build productive and effective workplace relationships
- Manage the collection, monitoring and interpretation of animal health data
- Use firearms to safely and humanely harvest wild game
- Prepare for and respond to an external audit of the establishment's quality system
- Conduct an internal audit of a documented program
- Assess effective stunning and bleeding
- Store wild game carcases
- Oversee compliance with Australian Standards for meat processing
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Calves
- Participate in the ongoing development and implementation of a HACCP based QA system
- Conduct a document review
- Oversee export requirements
- Eviscerate, inspect and tag wild game carcase in the field
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Bovine
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Rabbits
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Equine
- Conduct an animal welfare audit of a meat processing premises
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Poultry
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Porcine
- Perform ante and post-mortem inspection - Ratites
- Operate a wild game harvester vehicle
- Apply animal welfare and handling requirements
- Receive and inspect wild game carcases at a processing plant
- Review or develop an Emergency Animal Disease Response Plan
- Apply knowledge of the wild game meat industry
- Assess compliance with food safety programs
- Establish sampling program
- Plan, conduct and report a workplace incident investigation
