TS 12645

TS 12645 is an occupational standard that organizes skilled jobs in agriculture and fishery-related fields within a common classification framework. It brings together the principles used to group, code, and define workers in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, hunting, and fisheries so that occupational titles can be handled consistently and without ambiguity.

How the occupational groups are organised

Standards of this type are used to create a shared language for occupations. The central idea is to place similar tasks and responsibility levels under the same heading while separating different job titles through a structured coding system. The reference to ISCO 88 shows that the standard is aligned with an internationally recognised occupational classification approach.

What the subject area includes

The covered field extends from crop production to forestry, animal husbandry, hunting, and fisheries activities. In general technical terms, these sectors may involve cultivation, care, harvesting, capture, production tracking, and related work processes. From a classification point of view, what matters is how each occupation is described in terms of the knowledge, skills, and task set it represents.

This standard provides a reference structure for defining occupational titles and supporting their grouping and coding. It helps improve consistency in human resources practice, statistical recording, and occupational matching, while remaining a conceptual classification document rather than a training syllabus or a performance standard.