NZQA registered unit standard
3111 version 9
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Title
Prepare and dispatch tallow and rendered meat products
Level
3
Purpose
Credits
5
This entry-level unit standard is for people who work in a
rendering department in a meat processing operation.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: bag, identify,
stack, and load out dried rendered meat products; load bulkdried rendered meat products; and prepare, test, and load
tallow in a meat processing operation.
Classification
Meat Processing > Meat Industry - Rendering
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Normal production speed applies to the performance of this activity.
2
Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes but is not limited to – Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992, Animal Products Act 1999.
3
Resource documents include but are not limited to – Industry Standard 6/Industry
Agreed Standard 6 (IS6/IAS6) – Processing of Edible Product; Industry Standard 7 –
Byproducts; available from the Ministry for Primary Industries at
http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/industry/sectors/meat-ostrich-emu-game/meatman/
Code of Practice: Rendering (NZFSA, 2009), available from Ministry for Primary
Industries at http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/industry/code-practice-rendering/
4
Definitions
Company specifications – product specifications set by the company relating to cuts,
weights, presentation, and packaging.
Customer specifications – product specifications set by clients relating to cuts,
weights, presentation, and packaging.
Organisational requirements – instructions to staff on policies and procedures that
are documented in memo, electronic, or manual format and available in the
workplace.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Bag, identify, stack, and load out dried rendered meat products.
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NZQA registered unit standard
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Weighing scales are checked and adjusted to organisational and statutory
requirements.
1.2
Meat product samples are taken, tested, and recorded in accordance with
organisational and statutory requirements.
1.3
Bags are filled, weighed, sealed, identified, and recorded in accordance with
company specifications.
1.4
Bagging and sewing equipment is operated and maintained in accordance with
organisational and manufacturer’s requirements.
1.5
Stacking, palleting, storage, load-out, and documentation of bagged products
meet organisational requirements.
1.6
Dried rendered meat products are lifted safely in accordance with organisational
requirements.
Outcome 2
Load bulk-dried rendered meat products.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Bulk-loading equipment is prepared in accordance with organisational
requirements.
2.2
Bulk containers are prepared in accordance with organisational requirements.
2.3
The operation of loading equipment and the process of loading bulk containers
meet organisational requirements.
2.4
Loaded container weights meet customer and company tolerance
specifications.
2.5
Loading equipment is shut down in accordance with organisational
requirements.
2.6
Load-out documentation is completed and maintained in accordance with
organisational requirements.
Outcome 3
Prepare, test, and load tallow in a meat processing operation.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Bulk storage tanks are prepared for types and grades of tallow in accordance
with organisational and statutory requirements.
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3.2
Tallow is pumped from rendering tanks to bulk storage tanks in accordance with
organisational and statutory requirements.
3.3
Tallow is heated, circulated, sampled, and tested in accordance with
organisational and statutory requirements in preparation for loading out.
3.4
Loading equipment, pumps, and valves are operated in accordance with
organisational requirements before, during, and after loading operations.
3.5
Loading out operations are kept under operator observation and control at all
times in accordance with organisational requirements.
3.6
Loading out operations are shut down immediately after load requirements are
met.
3.7
Loading out operations are shut down immediately in the event of any
equipment malfunction or tallow spillage in accordance with organisational
requirements.
3.8
Documentation and reporting of tallow load-outs, equipment malfunctions and
spillages are completed in accordance with organisational and statutory
requirements.
3.9
Tallow spillages are cleaned up in accordance with organisational and statutory
requirements.
Planned review date
31 December 2019
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
22 February 1995
31 December 2012
Revision
2
29 September 1998
31 December 2012
Review
3
30 August 1999
31 December 2012
Revision
4
19 July 2001
31 December 2012
Review
5
24 May 2005
31 December 2012
Review
6
19 June 2009
31 December 2012
Review
7
17 June 2011
31 December 2018
Review
8
27 January 2015
N/A
Revision
9
17 September 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0033
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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SSB Code 101558
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3111 version 9
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, or
an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can
report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading
to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Consent requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The CMR
also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Primary Industry Training Organisation standards@primaryito.ac.nz if
you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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