Worker, intermediate products handler

Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers slaughter animals, clean, cut and dress meat and fish, bone and prepare food products, or preserve meat, fish and other foods by drying, salting or smoking.

• slaughtering animals;
• skinning and cutting carcasses;
• boning, cutting and dressing meat and fish for sale or further processing;
• preparing ingredients and making sausages and similar products using grinding, mixing and shaping machines;
• preserving meat, fish and other products;
• smoking meat, fish and other food products;
• cooking or otherwise processing meat, fish and other products for sale;
• selling meat or fish to customers, including wrapping, weighing, labelling and receiving payment.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Worker, slaughterhouse
• Worker, skinning
• Worker, meat/fish/poultry cleaning
• Butcher (meat cutter)
• Smoker (smokehouse worker)