Apprenticeship training course
Abattoir worker (level 2)
Managing animals before and during the slaughtering process.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 16 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Engineering and manufacturing
- Maximum funding
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£6,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- 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.
Full information on Abattoir worker (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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Apprenticeship location
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