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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.9 - handling animals S6.9.3 - moving and herding animals Load animals for transportation
Description
Load and unload animals safely into containers or cages for transportation. Make sure they are secure and safely established in the transport vehicle.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 4 occupations
- Total: 6 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Live animal transporterLive animal transporters provide transport and transfer for live animals, including the monitoring of the health and welfare of animals, the planning of, and preparation for journe…
- CatcherCatchers are specialists traveling to a number of poultry farms on a daily basis and catching live birds, and loading them safely into module drawers for shipment. Duties Catchers……
Optional for
- Animal handlerAnimal handlers are in charge of handling animals in a working role and continue the training of the animal, in accordance with national legislation. Includes people working w…
- ShunterShunters move shunting units with or without wagons or groups of wagons in order to build trains. They manage the driving of locomotives and are involved in switching wagons,…
- Moving truck driverMoving truck drivers operate lorries or trucks intended for relocating and transporting goods, belongings, machinery, and others. They assist in placing goods in the truck for effi…
- MoverMovers are responsible for the physical handling of goods and belongings to be relocated or transported from one place to the other. They disassemble goods, machinery or belongings…
Related skills
- Animal transport regulations
- Animal transportation vehicles
- Animal welfare legislation
- Animal welfare
- Communicate with customers
- Control animal movement
- Shunt inbound loads
- Carry objects
- Monitor the welfare of animals
- Health and safety measures in transportation
- Maintain welfare of animals during transportation
- Read pictograms
- Assess animal behaviour
- Provide first aid to animals
Last updated on February 18, 2026
