Courses and Qualifications

Non-Accredited Unit

Induction Checklist – Mandatory Units for Volunteers on Probation

This is a non-accredited unit.

The Course in Awareness of the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (AIIMS) is entry-level training that will enable learners to gain the skills and knowledge they require to apply the AIIMS concepts to their organisational risk management arrangements. This course is also for members of the community to apply the AIIMS concepts to managing risk in their environment.

 

Non-Accredited Units

PUALAW001 – Protect and preserve incident scene
PUASAR027 – Undertake land search rescue

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to interact with people internally and externally through verbal, non-verbal and written communication and to follow verbal and written instructions in the work place. It includes communicating verbally and non-verbally with clients, giving and receiving instructions, taking part in group discussions, participating in informal meetings and preparing to process routine correspondence and records.

The unit is applicable to all personnel but has a specific focus on the communication skills required by individuals at entry level in public safety organisations.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to interact with internal and external clients. It includes identifying and determining client needs and expectations and managing their expectations.

The unit is applicable to personnel who have a requirement to communicate with clients as part of their public safety role. This may include personnel who have a specific client contact role, as well as those in operational roles who meet members of the public as part of their duties.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to inspect, maintain and test a range of equipment. It includes inspecting response equipment, testing response equipment and cleaning, maintaining and restowing equipment

The unit applies to personnel who have either a primary role in the maintenance of equipment or are required to test and maintain equipment as part of an operational role.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to transmit and receive communications in routine and operational situations using the organisation's communications systems and equipment.

The unit is applicable to personnel who are required to operate an organisation's communications systems and equipment in support of the tasks they are undertaking. This may occur either in the field or from a facility.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to navigate to an incident in urban and rural environments.

The unit is applicable to personnel who are required to make decisions about the most appropriate route to an incident. This involves determining the current location of personnel, destination and resources required, planning the route, navigating to the destination and completing any post navigating activities.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to lead and conduct a briefing and/or a debriefing in operational and nonoperational situations, in a range of environments. It includes planning and preparing for briefings and debriefings, conducting briefings and debriefings and concluding briefings and debriefings.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to lead a small team to perform operational tasks at an incident. It applies to personnel who are responsible for ensuring that tasks allocated to their crew are effectively and efficiently carried out.

The work is typically performed under the supervision of a designated officer within the organisation's chain of command.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Typically, personnel performing these roles have completed induction or recruitment training and are commencing work as a member of an operational team. They will work under supervision in a team but may be responsible for completing singular tasks relating to a rescue.

It is applicable to personnel from the emergency services, volunteer organisations and/or associated industries.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This course covers the skills and knowledge required to gain access to and extricate casualties from vehicles that have crashed on the road, such as cars, motorcycles, buses, vans, tracks and semi-trailers, whilst minimising the potential for further injury and preserving the integrity of evidence.

The unit is applicable to members of rescue teams and requires responders to access casualties using a range of techniques, and to operate specialist equipment to undertake the rescue

his unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to undertake vertical rescues in a range of emergency situations in natural and manmade environments. It includes a range of vertical rescue situations, preparing and responding to rescue situations, assessing rescue scenes, establishing vertical rescue systems and performing in and terminating rescues.

The unit is applicable to personnel from the emergency services, volunteer organisations and associated industries

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to undertake storm and water damage operations as a member of a response team.

Flooding whether caused by slow river rise, storm water, storm surge or flash flooding, has a similar impact in terms of water damage. Techniques for minimising the effects of water entry into properties are common to storm, flood and other water damage events.

The unit applies to personnel responding as a member of a team to storm and/or water damage operations in rural and urban environments which can range in intensity and impact from localised thunderstorm or windstorm events to tropical cyclones. Evacuation and rescue by boat are not considered in this unit.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to act as a member of a crew of a floodboat on inland waterways in low risk water environments, including in times of flood. Floodboat operations may be conducted in urban or rural environments but does not include offshore operations.

Floodboat operators are expected to act as either the operator of the boat or as a member of the crew. A minimum of two operators is required on a floodboat, one person will be in charge of the floodboat.

Requirements for the operation of the floodboat and crew tasks will be determined by the nature of the incident and/or operation, legislative requirements, emergency management plans, organisational policies and procedures and incident context. Typical operations may include evacuations, transport, searches, rescues and resupply operations.

The unit applies to emergency services personnel, marine operators and waterways management organisations, and marine rescue organisations.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to support an emergency operation as a member of a team by providing information collection, collation, dissemination and presentation in an emergency operations centre. It informs the roles and responsibilities of individuals who act as a member of a team within an emergency operation centre at the commencement, during and completion of an incident operational period.

The unit is applicable to members of emergency services organisations, police officers, ambulance and paramedic services, fire service personnel and volunteers.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to undertake storm and water damage operations performed at height as a member of a response team. It informs the roles and responsibilities for those undertaking tasks performed at heights to mitigate damage caused by storm.

 

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to work with others whilst making a positive contribution to the effectiveness and efficiency of a team in a work environment, when under direct supervision. Limited responsibility towards others is required.

The unit applies to personnel working in public safety and is particularly pertinent to new staff in assisting with integration into the team culture of the organisation.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to manage own work and work with other personnel in public safety organisations.

The unit applies to personnel who work in public safety organisations and who are responsible for managing their own work priorities and who also work with others.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to applying general work, health and safety requirements when in a workplace environment, excluding emergency incidents.

The unit is applicable to personnel within the public safety sector however, it is particularly relevant to new personnel who need to apply Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements in a public safety context.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to recognise potential health and safety risks and to then act to eliminate or control those risks at incident scenes and to prevent injury to self, other personnel or members of the public.

The unit is applicable to public safety personnel attending an incident scene and links to the individual’s duty of care responsibility to maintain personal safety and to be aware of how actions affect the safety of others including team members, other agency/organisational personnel and the public.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Non-Accredited

Non-Accredited Units

This course covers foundation knowledge required for those wishing to complete the PUASES009 Undertake inland Flood-boat operations unit of competency.

​An informative guide to assist all SES personnel to prepare for operational deployments.

The Leading Program is for SES members from The South Western Region who wish to gain essential skills for SES operations. 

The Leading Program is for SES members from The South Western Region who wish to gain essential skills for SES operations. 

The TAMS Operational Use course has been developed to provide SES members with the knowledge and skills to use TAMS during operational activities.

At the completion of the course, learners should be able to:

• Create and manage Tasks
• Create and manage ASRs
• Create and manage Teams (depending on access)
• Update User details (depending on access)
• Manage fleet vehicles (depending on access

Non-Accredited Units

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to undertake storm and water damage operations performed at height as a GROUND CREW member of a response team. It informs the roles and responsibilities for those undertaking tasks performed at heights to mitigate damage caused by storm.