AHCLSK513Develop livestock health and welfare strategies

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What an assessment for AHCLSK513 must cover

38 assessable components: 3 elements (16 performance criteria), 8 performance evidence and 11 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 3 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Develop health and welfare strategies for livestock

  • 1.1Monitor livestock condition and identify risks to health and welfare relevant to the workplace and local environment
  • 1.2Develop and document a livestock health and welfare strategy
  • 1.3Identify and arrange facilities and equipment required to implement health and welfare strategy
  • 1.4Inform staff details of health and welfare strategy, treatment schedules, and workplace health and safety issues

2 Implement health strategy

  • 2.1Plan and administer treatment according to veterinary guidelines, legislative requirements, and animal welfare practices and procedures
  • 2.2Refer complex problems or signs of disease for specialist advice and treatment
  • 2.3Carry out control measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases
  • 2.4Implement procedures for reporting notifiable diseases according to legislative requirements

3 Manage livestock health and welfare

  • 3.1Integrate health and safety regulations, legislation and standards, and animal welfare legislation, regulations, standards and guidelines into the health and welfare strategy and workplace procedures
  • 3.2Analyse and evaluate health and welfare records
  • 3.3Check health treatment batch numbers and date of expiry have been recorded according to regulations and workplace requirements
  • 3.4Ensure compliance with withholding periods for treatments
  • 3.5Evaluate livestock post-treatment for evidence of treatment effectiveness and any further health problems
  • 3.6Review treatment outcomes and evaluate processes for effective management planning and best practice
  • 3.7Evaluate livestock health, biosecurity and emergency procedures in a review of the livestock health and welfare strategy
  • 3.8Maintain records for health and welfare strategy

Performance evidence

  • identified livestock diseases relevant to the workplace and local environment
  • developed prevention and treatment strategies for diseases
  • implemented a proactive risk management approach to managing livestock health and welfare
  • implemented health and welfare strategies appropriate to the livestock species
  • calculated dose rates and scheduled treatments
  • evaluated, monitored and maintained livestock treatment records according to regulations and workplace requirements
  • implemented and monitored relevant workplace health and safety and environment and biosecurity legislation, regulations and workplace procedures
  • implemented and monitored relevant animal welfare practices

Knowledge evidence

  • workplace requirements applicable to health and safety in the workplace for developing livestock health and welfare strategies
  • environment and biosecurity legislation and regulations and workplace practices relevant to developing livestock health and welfare strategies
  • relevant animal welfare legislation, regulations, standards and guidelines including: Australian Animal Welfare Strategy
  • relevant animal welfare legislation, regulations, standards and guidelines including: Animal Welfare Act or Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act or specific state or territory equivalent
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: livestock health and abnormalities
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: preventative health strategies
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: principles of genetic resistance and immunity
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: contingency and operational planning
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: treatment applications, handling and consequences of their use
  • principles and practices for developing livestock health and welfare strategies, including: treatment record keeping requirements
  • relevant biosecurity and emergency legislation, codes of practices and procedures

Foundation skills

  • Reading: Identify and interpret textual and numerical information from a range of sources to identify relevant and key information regarding livestock health and welfare strategy requirements, including regulations, legislation, standards and guidelines
  • Writing: Use clear language, accurate industry terminology and logical structure to prepare and document a livestock health and welfare strategy
  • Oral communication: Use collaborative and inclusive language and techniques including active listening, questioning and reading of verbal or non-verbal signals to convey and clarify procedural information, confirm work team understanding and compliance with specified procedures and eliciting information from workers; Respond to questions, clarify information and seek advice

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What does an assessment tool for AHCLSK513 need to cover?

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