Trimmer, Meat

**Work site environment**:

- Noisy
- Cold/refrigerated

**Work setting**:

- Slaughter houses
- Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment

**Tasks**:

- Slaughter livestock and remove viscera and other inedible parts from carcasses
- Slaughter cattle, calves, and sheep as prescribed by religious laws
- Cut beef, lamb, pork or veal carcasses or sides or quarters of carcasses into primal cuts for further cutting, processing or packaging
- Remove bones from meat

**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Cleavers
- Knives
- Power cutting tools
- Saws
- Stunning devices

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation
- Public transportation is not available

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Standing for extended periods

**Weight handling**:

- More than 45 kg (100 lbs)

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?