Abattoir worker - Level 2 - Apprenticeship Standard

Abattoir worker - Level 2 - Apprenticeship Standard

This apprenticeship standard is Level 2 and typically takes 16 months to complete.

What an Abbatoir Worker does:

• Take responsibility for their own and others’ health and safety in the work area, including personal protective equipment (PPE) hygiene and safety
• Demonstrate basic safe and hygienic operational and maintenance practices with machinery and equipment such as cleaning, sharpening, lubrication
• Carry out lairage in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) by demonstrating techniques and skills in animal welfare, handling and
• Fulfil the requirement for accurate recording of essential information impacting on animal welfare or potential meat production quality issues
• Carry out the process of stunning, shackling and bleeding using skills and procedures that have regard for animal welfare, safety and hygienic practice
• Carry out the dressing process (flaying/skinning/scalding) using skills to avoid tears and cut damage to subcutaneous tissue and avoiding visual carcase contamination
• Carry out the process of evisceration by removing green and red offal in sequence using skills and practices that avoid where possible contamination of carcase/offal’s including carcase splitting where appropriate.
• Contribute to problem solving and the continuous improvement of abattoir operations.