Handle and store bright beer in brewery
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed for you to handle and store bright beer in brewing. This standard details the skills needed to store and use bright beer in accordance with relevant procedures and regulations. This will also cover keeping the storage area clean and tidy, identifying, recording and taking action to correct any changes and problems in storage conditions. Monitoring and maintaining storage conditions is important to product quality and safety. This standard is also about understanding the principles of handling, transferring and storing bright beer in brewing. It covers the design and features of bright beer plant, equilibration, sampling and brewing. This standard is for you if you are involved in, and require a broad knowledge and understanding of, the handling and storing of bright beer in brewing.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Maintain storage conditions
protect goods and materials from avoidable deterioration
implement safety and security procedures in accordance with
company regulations
keep the storage area clean, tidy and free from obstructions and
hazards
Monitor changes in storage conditions
identify unacceptable variances in storage conditions by regular,
careful monitoring
identify and record any unacceptable variances and defects in the
storage facility and equipment
take action within the limits of your authority to correct variances
and defects to protect goods and materials
report corrective action to the relevant people
use the results of monitoring to identify realistic suggestions for
improving storage conditions
present your suggestions for improvement clearly to the relevant
people
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
the organisational health and safety, hygiene, environmental and
quality standards and instructions
the personal protective equipment required
the work area tools and equipment needed
why it is important to check the cleanliness of work area, tools and
equipment
- what the key operational procedures are for moving and
transferring bright beer
- what the basic design features of bright beer plant and pipe work
are
what the significance of atmospheric oxygen is in the plant
where and how inert gases are used in the plant
what the essential plant items are for the outlet of a filter to a
bright beer tank
- what the essential plant items are for the outlet of bright beer tank
to a filling machine
what the purposes of storage (holding) are
what the process of equilibration and sampling is
what the minimum and maximum residence times are
what the beer blending procedures are
why it is necessary to blend beer and important to blend beer in
accordance with specifications
how to calculate using beer blend parameters
how to deal with waste materials in accordance with
organisational requirements
the need for records to be accurate and completed promptly
what should be communicated, to whom and why it should be
done
- the limits of your authority and the consequences of exceeding
them