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Assist with handling cattle in yards
Level
2
Credits
2
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to assist with handling cattle
in yards.
Subfield
Agriculture
Domain
Cattle Farming
Status
Registered
Status date
16 April 2010
Date version published
16 April 2010
Planned review date
31 December 2014
Entry information
Open.
Replacement information
This unit standard replaced unit standard 24620.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0052
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
1
Performance of all aspects of this unit standard should comply with the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries (1992), Code of Recommendations and Minimum
Standards for the Welfare of Dairy Cattle, and its subsequent amendments, referred
to as the Welfare Code, available at http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/regs/animalwelfare
2
Information and resources on cattle handling are found on the ACC website –
http://www.acc.co.nz/preventing-injuries/on-the-farm/PI00059
3
On-farm procedures refer to the verbal or written procedures for moving, restraining,
loading, and unloading cattle.
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Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Assist with handling cattle in yards.
Performance criteria
1.1
Cattle yard features are described in terms of the reasons why they contribute
to the safe handling of cattle.
Range
may include but is not limited to – level ground or slightly uphill,
orientation to sun, drained, clear of obstacles, entrance in relation
to fenceline, accessways between and around pens, loading ramp
sides boarded up, concreted race and forcing pen, access slots,
water trough, freely swinging gates, self closing gates, catwalks on
forcing pens, boarded out corners;
evidence required for at least four.
1.2
Cattle are moved into and out of yards, under supervision, without injury or
undue risk to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.
1.3
Cattle are moved through a race, under supervision, without injury or undue risk
to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.
1.4
Cattle are restrained, under supervision, without injury or undue risk to cattle or
handler(s) in accordance with on-farm procedures.
Range
1.5
must include-hock bar;
may include-head bail.
Cattle are loaded and unloaded to and from a truck, under supervision, without
injury or undue risk to cattle or handler(s) in accordance with on-farm
procedures.
Please note
Providers must be 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 accredited by NZQA 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.
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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 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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