- Livestock Receivals Register8
- Incident and Hazard Register8
- QA Monitoring and Verification Log8
- Loadout and Despatch Orders8
Quality protein, from paddock to plate
CAQA Southern Cross Meat Processing operates an export registered beef and small stock processing establishment in north east Victoria.
CAQA Southern Cross Meat Processing, meat processing and export
CAQA Southern Cross Meat Processing operates an export registered beef and small stock processing establishment in north east Victoria. The plant supplies chilled and frozen primal cuts, manufacturing beef, edible offal and co-products to domestic retailers, food service distributors and export customers in Japan, Korea, the United States and the Middle East. Cattle are processed on a single shift chain and sheep and lambs on a second chain, feeding a boning room, carton packing lines, plate freezers, a rendering plant and a dedicated halal program. Livestock come from family farms, feedlots and saleyards across the Riverina and north east Victoria through a small buying team.
The business runs from three sites. The processing plant near Wodonga holds the lairage, two slaughter floors, carcase chillers, the boning room, packing lines, cold store and rendering plant, and works a production shift from 5:30 am followed by an afternoon clean-down and a night pre-operational hygiene crew. A cold store and distribution centre in Dandenong South holds domestic stock and consolidates orders for metropolitan customers. A livestock buying office in Wagga Wagga coordinates procurement and transport. Six departments report to the General Manager, and the 6:15 am production meeting sets the kill plan, boning specifications and loadout schedule for the day.
Safe every day
Nobody is hurt making our product. Every worker has the right to stop a task that is not safe and the duty to report a hazard the same day.
Respect for animals
Every animal in our care is handled calmly, given water and rest, and stunned effectively before slaughter. There are no exceptions for time pressure.
Product integrity
Every carton carries a true description, a verified temperature history and a traceable link back to the property of origin.
Pride in the team
We train people properly, recognise skill, and expect leaders to be on the floor where the work happens.
Services and operations
To turn well raised Australian livestock into safe, traceable, high value meat products while treating animals, people and customers with respect.
Export beef processing
Slaughter, chilling, grading and boning of grass fed and grain fed cattle to customer specifications for chilled and frozen export markets, with MSA grading and halal certification available.
Small stock processing
Sheep, lamb and goat processing on a dedicated chain, producing whole carcases, six way cuts and boned primals for domestic wholesalers and export customers.
Boning and value adding
Boning room services including portion control, denuding, frenching, vacuum packing and retail ready packing to detailed cut specifications using AUS-MEAT language.
Service kill and toll processing
Contract slaughter and boning for brand owners and producer groups who retain ownership of their livestock and product from receival through to loadout.
Co-products and rendering
Recovery and processing of hides, skins, edible and inedible offal, tallow and meat meal, with full separation of edible and inedible streams.
Cold storage and distribution
Blast freezing, chilled and frozen storage, order consolidation and metropolitan delivery from the Dandenong South distribution centre.
Six departments, one workplace
Each department has a purpose, a lead, responsibilities, performance measures and the systems it works in. Students are placed in a department by their scenario.
Livestock and Lairage
Receives, identifies, rests and presents livestock for slaughter in a way that protects animal welfare, meat quality and traceabil...
Visit departmentSlaughter Floor
Converts livestock into dressed carcases and edible offal under hygienic conditions on the beef and small stock chains. The team o...
Visit departmentBoning Room
Breaks chilled carcases into primals, sub-primals and trim to customer specifications, maximising yield while meeting AUS-MEAT and...
Visit departmentPacking and Loadout
Packs, weighs, labels, freezes and stores cartons and prepares consignments for despatch to domestic and export customers. The tea...
Visit departmentQuality Assurance
Owns the Approved Arrangement, the HACCP plan and the daily verification program that proves the plant produces safe, correctly de...
Visit departmentPeople and Safety
Recruits, inducts, trains and protects the workforce. The team runs the induction program, the training matrix, the health and saf...
Visit departmentWorking systems with real records
Every system is live in your browser: create, update, search, move cards on a board and export what you did. Reset returns the seed data at any time.
Livestock Receivals Register
Records every consignment of livestock received at the plant, its documentation, identification reconciliation, penning and lairage status.
8 recordsIncident and Hazard Register
The plant register of injuries, near misses, hazards and animal welfare events, with investigation status and corrective actions.
8 recordsQA Monitoring and Verification Log
Records pre-operational hygiene inspections, critical control point checks, chiller assessments, Meat Hygiene Assessment results and container inspections.
8 recordsLoadout and Despatch Orders
Tracks customer orders from booking through picking, container inspection, loading and despatch, including export market eligibility and seal numbers.
8 recordsTraining and Competency Matrix
Records each worker's induction, station competencies, licences and refresher dates so supervisors can see who is signed off for which station.
8 recordsInbox
8 work requests from managers and colleagues, each linked to a scenario or a document.
Open inboxEight workplace scenarios
Sign in as a role, read the brief, work through the tasks using the documents and systems, then print an evidence summary for your assessor.
Complete your first week on the slaughter floor
You are a new process worker starting on the beef slaughter floor.
Open scenario Intermediate 2 to 3 hoursReceive and pen a consignment of cattle
You are a stockperson in the lairage team.
Open scenario Intermediate 3 to 4 hoursMeet the export chuck roll specification and report yield
You are a boner and slicer on the hindquarter and forequarter lines.
Open scenario Intermediate 2 to 3 hoursInspect and load an export container of frozen manufacturing beef
You are a loadout operator in the packing and loadout team.
Open scenario Intermediate 2 to 3 hoursRun the boning room pre-operational hygiene inspection
You are a Quality Assurance Officer on the day shift.
Open scenario Advanced 4 to 5 hoursCoordinate a mock product recall
You are the Quality Assurance Coordinator acting as recall coordinator.
Open scenario Advanced 3 to 4 hoursInvestigate a forearm laceration on the hindquarter line
You are a Production Supervisor assigned to lead the incident investigation.
Open scenario Advanced 4 to 5 hoursPrepare the plant for a customer animal welfare audit
You are the Lairage Supervisor and lead animal welfare officer.
Open scenarioNotice board All notices
- Safety Q fever vaccination clinic
4 September 2026 - Quality Metal detector failure on packing line B
8 September 2026 - People Health and safety representative elections
10 September 2026
Coming up Calendar
- 14/09Daily production meeting
6:15 am, Production office, Wodonga plant - 15/09Q fever screening and vaccination clinic
7:00 am, First aid room, Wodonga plant - 16/09Health and safety committee
2:00 pm, Training room 1 - 22/09Mock recall exercise (order EX-26-2205)
9:00 am, QA office and boardroom
Mapped to the Australian Meat Processing Training Package
Every scenario lists the current units of competency and qualifications it supports, with assessor notes and a printable evidence summary. Use it with your own assessment tools or ask CAQA for a matched kit.