Fire Sector Qualifications within the Public Safety Training Package
The Public Safety Sector of Government Skills Australia covers a range of services, employers, occupations and careers in the major agencies responsible for the protection, security and safety of Australians. The Public Safety sector includes Fire, Police, Defence, State/Territory Emergency Services and Emergency Management.
Employees and volunteers in the public safety organisations are highly skilled and perform a variety of specialist roles. The Public Safety Training Package outlines the industry wide qualifications and competencies required by these personnel.
AFAC, through its representation on the Industry Advisory Committee of Government Skills Australia, has been instrumental in developing the Fire Qualifications of the Public Safety Training Package.
To support the effective implementation of the Fire Sector Qualifications within the Public Safety Training Package (PSTP), AFAC has developed a suite of quality Training Resources Kits (TRK).
Each TRK has been developed specifically to support the delivery of an individual unit of competency and includes:
- Comprehensive learner resources for participants with a wide variety of learning and formative assessment activities
- A slideshow to assist a facilitator in the delivery of the training.
Statements of Attainment
Individuals who are assessed against units of competency set out in the Training Package are entitled to receive a Statement of Attainment which recognises the achievement of that competency. Once a person has achieved all of the units of competency specified in a qualification they can apply to an RTO to have the qualification awarded.
These qualifications are:
- PUA20601 Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)
- PUA20701 Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)
- PUA30601 Certificate III in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)
- PUA30701 Certificate III in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)
- PUA40301 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision)
- PUA50501 Diploma of Public Safety (Firefighting Management)
- PUA60501 Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Firefighting Management)
Fire Sector Qualifications
The core units contained within Certificates II and III in Firefighting and Emergency Operations reflect the competencies required by firefighters involved in structural firefighting operations.
The core units contained within Certificates II and III in Firefighting Operations reflect the competencies required by firefighters involved in land management and wildfire firefighting.
Certificate IV covers leadership and supervisory functions, while the Diploma and Advanced Diploma qualifications address management functions.
To ensure operational safety is maintained by fire sector personnel they must be assessed as competent in all fire specific prerequisites and assessed in the following units within a fire context for the purposes of obtaining fire qualifications.
PUAOPE003A Supervise Response
PUAOPE004A Conduct Briefings and Debriefings
PUAOPE005A Manage Mulit-team Response
PUAOPE006A Control Multi Agency Situations
PUAOPE007A Command Agency Personnel within a Multi Agency Response
Topics covered in the Fire Sector Qualifications within the PSTP
- Communicate in the workplace
- Respond to isolated/remote structure
- Respond to wildfire
- Check installed fire safety systems
- Operate breathing apparatus
- Protect and preserve incident scene
- Operate communications systems and equipment
- Work in a team
- Foster a positive organisational image in the community
- Suppress wildfire
- Render hazardous materials incident safe
- Monitor hazardous material
- Employ personal protection at a hazardous materials incident
- Operate pumps
- Navigate in urban and rural environment
- Work autonomously
- Drive vehicles under operational conditions
- Inspect dangerous goods facilities
- Develop prescribed burning plans
- Conduct prescribed burning
- Conduct briefings/debriefings
- Lead, manage and develop a team
- Manage procurement
- Manage financial resources
- Manage marketing requirements
- Respond to isolated remote structure fire
- Supress urban fire
- Supervise specialist response to aviation industry
- Develop incident control strategies
Training Resource Kits can be purchased from the AFAC Shop
View the Public Safety Fire Sector Qualifications Training Resource Kit Brochure
