Meat Inspector (ANZSCO 311312)
On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Meat Inspector on?
STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.
CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
- Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Meat Inspector comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Meat Inspector as a Group C occupation on the family's Certificate IV field-relevance basis. Meat Inspector sits on both the Short-term list and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching all six visas covered in this family — the strongest visa reach of any code in the Primary Products Inspectors cluster, ahead of both entries under code 311399 and well ahead of Fisheries Officer and Quarantine Officer, which reach only 494.
Where these applications come unstuck
Full detail on this code's own stated exclusions was not separately captured in this pass beyond its cluster context — its sibling code 311314 Primary Products Quality Assurance Officer names Meat Inspector directly in its own exclusion list, which is worth reading if the two roles' duties overlap in a given workplace, since VETASSESS treats them as genuinely separate occupations rather than interchangeable inspection titles.
An honest read on this pathway
The meat-industry labour-agreement lane carries a substantial number of current employers in Migratio's own register data, and the DAMA regional extract separately name-tags a further group of meat-processing employers. Combined with full six-visa reach, this is the best-connected code in the whole Primary Products Inspectors cluster — both the list access and the employer demand behind it are genuinely there, not list-only.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
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Related occupations
- Fisheries Officer (311311)
- Primary Products Assurance and Inspection Officers nec (311399)
- Primary Products Inspectors nec (311399)
- Primary Products Quality Assurance Officer (311314)
- Quarantine Officer (311313)
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