Australia’s meat processing workforce relies on a combination of core skills in safety, quality assurance, and leadership to produce high quality meat products for local and global consumers. It is important the qualifications and skills standards that describe these crucial skills are kept up to date.

This project will look at five qualifications and more than 100 units that cover these essential skills, across the AMP Australian Meat Industry Training Package.

The national training package has undergone a series of small changes over the last five years, designed to meet specific industry needs. While carrying out this work, it has become apparent that the training package requires a full review to meet the updated priorities in the Training Package Development and Endorsement Process Policy and Training Package Standards. As such, the Meat IRC has proposed a three-part project to conduct a full review of the training package. This project will be part one.

If you have experience in the meat processing industry, your input is welcomed throughout the process to update qualifications, skill sets, and units of competency that support quality assurance, safety, leadership and general skills in the meat processing industry.

The skills standards will be streamlined to promote flexible career pathways and transferability throughout different sectors, and updated to be in line with current Training Package Standards. This will provide industry with continued access to training and apprenticeships that are relevant, nationally recognised and supported.

The project will be managed by Skills Impact working with MINTRAC, under the guidance of the Meat Industry Reference Committee.

For more information, visit the project page