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Level 2
Credits 4
Purpose This unit standard is for people who are currently working, or who intend to work, in jobs requiring them to demonstrate knowledge of working in a food and related products freezer environment.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe personal safety requirements when working in a food and related products freezer; describe the effects of temperature on equipment; describe the effects on packaged product of being frozen, and the way being frozen alters the handling requirement of packaged product.
Subfield Food and Related Products Processing
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Food and Related Product Storage and Distribution
Registered
20 December 2001
24 August 2006
Planned review date
Entry information
31 August 2008
Open.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Competenz (Food and Beverage)
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0111
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
1 Legislation and guidelines relevant to this unit standard may include but is not limited to the: Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Food Act 1981, Food (Safety)
Regulations 2002, Guidelines for Management of Work in Extremes of Temperature ,
1990, OSH, available from www.osh.govt.nz
, AS/NZS 2865: 2001 Safe working in a confined space , available from www.standards.co.nz
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2 Related products may include: beverages, household products, or personal care products.
3 Company policies and procedures are those stated policies and/or procedures made known to the candidate as being the required performance standard – eg location for filing documentation.
Element 1
Describe personal safety requirements when working in a food and related products freezer.
Range protective clothing, work practices, communications.
Performance criteria
1.1 The description links personal safety requirements to company safety policies and procedures.
1.2 The description outlines the potential consequences of failure to follow company safety policies and procedures.
Element 2
Describe the effects of temperature on equipment.
Range forklifts, pallet jacks, scanners, two way radios.
Performance criteria
2.1 The description outlines the effects of freezer temperatures, and frozen condensation, on equipment designed for room temperature operation.
Range batteries, buttons, hydraulic oils, equipment surfaces.
2.2
Element 3
The description outlines the effects of room temperatures on equipment fitted with hydraulic oils designed for freezer temperatures.
Describe the effects of freezing on the packaged product, and the way being frozen alters the handling requirement of packaged product.
Performance criteria
3.1 The description compares the difference between pallets of already frozen products and freezing a pallet of fresh product in terms of the rate of freezing and the product storage life.
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3.2 The description compares the behaviour of pallets of frozen product with pallets of fresh product in terms of their stability, and the resulting wrapping requirements.
3.3 The description outlines the effect of freezing on product packaging, in terms of the differences in handling requirements for frozen product compared with fresh product.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority, 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 accredited by the Qualifications Authority before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP 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 Competenz qualifications@competenz.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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