AHC30422 Certificate III in Pork Production
Want a career in the pork industry as a piggery attendant or stock person? Start here!
Through this training, you will gain a range of skills including caring for livestock, establishing and maintaining breeding programs and livestock transportation.
You'll also learn how to comply with industry animal welfare requirements and contribute to work health and safety processes.
Completion of this nationally recognised and accredited qualification can provide credit towards a relevant higher-level qualification, should you wish to pursue further study.
Overview
Campus Merredin
When Available all year round
Study Mode Workplace
This program is offered in conjunction with Pork Industry Training WA (PITWA), under a Third-Party Arrangement.
The course is delivered over four modules over a twelve-month period:
• Industry experts deliver information sessions to cover the industry specific content, they are provided by the industry peak training body PITWA.
• Students must be employed full-time in a working piggery to undertake this training.
Core units are delivered first to provide the underpinning knowledge and skills to work in the industry.
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Available all year round, 2025
Details
Units
To attain this qualification, you are required to successfully complete sixteen (16) units of competence, comprising five (5) core and eleven (11) elective units selected from the options provided below.
For an approximate fee estimate, mark the boxes below corresponding to the number of units needed for this course. The estimated fees will be displayed on the right-hand side.
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| AHCBIO303 | Apply biosecurity measures |
| AHCLSK331 | Comply with industry animal welfare requirements |
| AHCPRK202 | Move and handle pigs |
| AHCPRK311 | Care for health and welfare of pigs |
| AHCWHS302 | Contribute to workplace health and safety processes |
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| AHCLSK301 | Administer medication to livestock |
| AHCLSK304 | Carry out post-mortem examination of livestock |
| AHCLSK307 | Euthanase livestock |
| AHCLSK313 | Monitor livestock production growing environments |
| AHCLSK318 | Rear newborn and young livestock |
| AHCLSK342 | Prepare animals for parturition |
| AHCPRK308 | Monitor dry sow performance |
| AHCPRK309 | Pregnancy test pigs |
| AHCPRK310 | Artificially inseminate pigs |
| AHCPRK314 | Care for grower and finisher pigs |
| AHCWRK318 | Comply with industry quality assurance requirements |