In this bulletin:
Date of effect: 23 October 2019
Updated: 2 December 2022
In this Commissioners Information Bulletin the following traineeship vocation is varied to update the advanced entry requirement.
Seafood Industry - Aquaculture
Superseded bulletin
This Commissioners Information Bulletin supersedes Bulletin 541
David Collins
The Commissioner for Vocational Training
Vocational Training Orders
Traineeships
Date of effect
1 June 2012
Updated
2 December 2022
Qualifications
SFI20119 Certificate II in Aquaculture
SFI30119 Certificate III in Aquaculture
Terms of traineeships
Full-time:
SFI20119 Certificate II in Aquaculture
- 12 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
SFI30119 Certificate III in Aquaculture
- 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
- 18 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds SFI20119 Certificate II in Aquaculture
Part-time:
See part-time apprenticeships and traineeships
School based
SFI20119 Certificate II in Aquaculture
The term for a school based traineeship will be calculated in months from the date of commencement to 31 December of the HSC year. During this period the school-based trainee must undertake a minimum of 100 days of on-the-job training.
Probationary period
2 months
Date of effect
23 October 2019
Qualifications
SFI20319 Certificate II in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
SFI30319 Certificate III in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
SFI40219 Certificate IV in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
Terms of traineeships
Full-time:
SFI20319 Certificate II in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
- 12 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
SFI30319 Certificate III in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
- 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
- 12 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds SFI20319 Certificate II in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
SFI40219 Certificate IV in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
- 36 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved
- 24 months or until the relevant competencies are achieved where the trainee holds SFI30319 Certificate III in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
Part-time:
See part-time apprenticeships and traineeships
School based
SFI20319 Certificate II in Seafood Post Harvest Operations
The term for a school based traineeship will be calculated in months from the date of commencement to 31 December of the HSC year. During this period the school-based trainee must undertake a minimum of 100 days of on-the-job training.
Probationary period
2 months
Job descriptions
Traineeships
Certificate II level traineeship will provide the basic skills needed to work in an aquaculture enterprise, perhaps as a field hand.
Trainees will learn to:
- work with stock in an aquaculture enterprise
- apply basic food handling procedures
- meet occupational health and safety requirements
- communicate effectively in the workplace.
Certificate III level traineeship will provide greater proficiency in the skills required to work in specific workplace situations, perhaps as an agriculture enterprise skilled worker or leading hand.
Duties may include:
- installing or constructing stock holding structures
- treating and disposing of effluent and wastes
- monitoring environmental conditions
- maintaining water quality
- overseeing stock-related activities, such as feeding and controlling pests and diseases
- operating high technology water treatment components
- implementing emergency procedures.
Certificate II level traineeship will provide the basic skills needed to work in a seafood processing enterprise, seafood sales and distribution enterprise, perhaps as an enterprise field hand.
Trainees will learn to:
- work with stock in a seafood processing enterprise
- work with stock in a seafood sales and distribution enterprise
- apply basic food handling procedures
- meet occupational health and safety requirements
- communicate effectively in the workplace.
Certificate III level traineeships are for more experienced industry employees whose work requires extensive product knowledge and some responsibility for decision-making and coordination of team activities.
Duties may include:
- dealing with suppliers
- undertaking advanced processing procedures
- handling and slaughtering harvested stock
- maintaining appropriate temperature controls
- weighing and grading seafood
- packing, labelling, storing and distributing merchandise
- calibrating and maintaining equipment and facilities
- maintaining food safety and quality control procedures and policies
- complying with food safety requirements
- supervising or leading work teams.
Certificate IV level traineeships offer advanced training for people working within the retail or wholesale sector of the seafood industry in a supervisory or leadership capacity. The qualification will have application for people working on fishing dockside or aquaculture farm gate outlets, fish markets or retailers and transport, storage and holding companies.
Trainees will learn to:
- comply with legislative requirements, including those for food safety programs
- implement a range of enterprise policies and procedures
- plan work activities
- take responsibility for others in the workplace.
More about Seafood Industry - traineeships
SFIr2.1 Seafood Industry Training Package includes the following qualifications that support traineeship pathways:
On successful completion of the relevant qualification
- parties may apply to the Commissioner for Vocational Training for completion of the apprenticeship/traineeship prior to the nominal completion date of the training contract or;
- Training Services may issue letters from the Commissioner to both parties inviting them to consider competency based completion if it has received advice from the training organisation that the apprentice or trainee is eligible to receive their qualification.
Download a Request for Competency Based Completion form.
Applications under the Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001 to establish a traineeship whether full-time, part-time or school based will not be approved unless the Commissioner for Vocational Training is satisfied that appropriate industrial arrangements are in place.
Trainees may be employed under the following awards:
All private sector employers and employees in New South Wales are covered by the national industrial relations system administered by the Fair Work Commission (the Commission). The industrial instrument that applies is a national (modern) award or a current enterprise agreement registered with the Commission. Further information is available from the Fair Work Ombudsman by telephoning 13 13 94 or via their website.
The following qualifications are suitable for delivery in schools:
*Certificate II in Seafood Post Harvest Operations contains elements that propose minimal risk such as working with knives and filleting fish and molluscs.
For qualifications available for delivery in schools, click here.
For further information on the delivery of training for school based part-time traineeships, refer to Training Arrangements.
AgriFood Skills Australia publishes information on its website about career pathways in the seafood industry.
Food Legislation requires all food establishments to have an auditable Food Safety Program for each kitchen. These are the responsibility of employers.
The NSW Food Authority regulates the NSW seafood industry under the Food Production (Seafood Safety Scheme) Amendment (Shellfish Area Service Levy) Regulation 2015 and issues licences to businesses that:
- process, pack, store and transport seafood
- seafood wholesalers, retailers and processors
- operate fishing vessels
- capture, farm or handle seafood for consumption by the general public
- after catch that is, aquaculture businesses.
To meet licensing requirements, food establishments are required to hold a NSW Food Authority licence and to develop a food safety plan to operate. The Certificates III and IV in Seafood Post Harvest Operations each include units of competency which meet both work health and safety and food requirements in the workplace.
For registered training providers which can deliver the traineeship qualifications go to training.gov.au.
A list of training organisations which are in contract with the NSW Department of Education to be paid for the delivery of the training is here.
When developing Training Plans, registered training providers should ensure that the training program satisfies the qualification packaging requirements and at the same time, reflects the nature of the business. Training Plans should be customised so that workplace activities support and align with the qualification units of competency.
From 1 January 2015 the NSW Government introduced new fee arrangements for government subsidised vocational education and training (VET). Under Smart and Skilled, all apprenticeship and most traineeship qualifications are subsidised. For a full list of all the qualifications refer to the current NSW Skills List. Information on the types and levels of subsidies can be found in the Smart and Skilled Fee Administration Policy. Training for existing-worker trainees is not subsidised.
From 14 December 2015 Training Services and Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) transition arrangements will be aligned.
A superseded qualification in the Vocational Training Orders on this page can be specified on apprenticeship and traineeship applications for up to 12 months after the training package is released on the National Register. Registered training organisations (RTOs) may commence training in either the new or superseded qualification but must meet the requirements of ASQA. For more information refer to ASQA's General Direction - Learner Transition.
A copy of each Vocational Training Order is available for inspection on this internet site below or at any Training Services centre of the NSW Department of Education.
Contacts and enquiries
To sign up an apprentice or trainee call 1800 020 108. To find a job in an apprenticeship or traineeship search here.
For implementation of new pathways in relation to this Training Package profile, please contact NSW ITAB Agriculture, Food and Animal Management (AFAM) Jess Cleary mobile 0402 128 312.
For additional questions contact us.
Email: Online enquiry form
Phone: 13 28 11