This course is designed to equip individuals with competencies for poultry products processing. It entails pre-slaughter handling, poultry slaughter operations, poultry based products processing and poultry by-products management.

View Curriculum 'Poultry Products Processing Operator, Level 4'


Pre-Slaughter Handling

This addresses the competencies required to perform pre-slaughter handling. It involves receiving and weighing poultry for slaughter, managing poultry stress, cleaning and stacking catching crates as well as preparing for live poultry collection.

Summary of Learning Outcomes

  1. Receive and weigh poultry for slaughter

  2. Manage poultry stress

  3. Clean and stack catching crates

  4. Prepare for live poultry collection

Poultry Slaughter Operations

This unit specifies the competencies required to perform poultry slaughter. It involves restraining, collecting decapitated poultry heads and feathers; dressing de-feathered scalded poultry carcasses and eviscerating inspected poultry carcasses.

Summary of Learning Outcomes

  1. Restrain poultry for slaughter

  2. Collect decapitated poultry heads and feathers

  3. Dress de-feathered scalded poultry carcasses

  4. Eviscerate inspected poultry

Poultry Meat-Based Products Processing

This unit specifies the competencies required to produce poultry-based products. It involves shifting selected poultry meat for processing, identifying processed poultry based products and packing and storing processed poultry products.

Summary of Learning Outcomes

  1. Shift selected poultry meat for processing

  2. Select processed poultry meat based products

  3. Pack and store processed poultry products

Poultry By-Products Management

This unit specifies the competencies required to manage poultry by-products. It involves rendering poultry blood, managing poultry waste, and cleaning poultry processing area, tools and equipment.

Summary of Learning Outcomes

  1. Render poultry blood

  2. Manage poultry waste

  3. Clean poultry processing area, tools and equipment