This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to maintain records required for workplace and regulatory bodies. It covers major record-keeping and report-generating activities, typically for traceability purposes.

This unit applies to individuals who are responsible for keeping detailed records relating to production, such as kill sheets, wild game animal receival sheets, chiller records, boning room records and loadout records. These record-keeping duties are typically carried out by the livestock clerk, wild game animal clerk, boning room or chiller clerk, or the person responsible for maintaining smallgoods production records. The record-keeping duties should form a significant part of the individual’s responsibilities.

All work must be carried out to comply with workplace procedures, according to state/territory health and safety, food and meat safety regulations, legislation and standards that apply to the workplace.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.