The PUA41019 Certificate IV of Public Safety (Leadership) is designed for emergency service and public safety personnel who undertake work in collaborative leadership roles. Individuals in emergency service and public safety leadership positions will be required to manage personnel, supplies and equipment as well as incidents and/or disasters as they arise.
The role of a public safety leader involves the ability to implement change by inspiring individuals, teams and organisations, establishing and sharing a clear vision, providing information and methods to realise that vision whilst balancing the conflicting interests of key stakeholders. This may include negotiating with other organisations, communicating with personnel, consensus building and developing strategic plans.
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to design, develop and document activities that exercise one or more of the elements of emergency management arrangements. It includes determining exercise need and purpose by designing and planning exercise activities, assessing exercise risks and identifying logistics requirements.
Emergency management exercises may be used to simulate emergency events in order to train personnel, review and test planning processes, identify needs and/or weaknesses, demonstrate capabilities and to practice people in working together. The design skills in this unit can be applied to any context in which an emergency management exercise is appropriate.
The unit applies to personnel with responsibility for designing emergency management exercises.
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to manage and evaluate exercises designed to practice one or more elements of the emergency management arrangements. It includes reviewing exercise preparation to any context in which an emergency management exercise is appropriate and evaluating outcomes against exercise objectives.
Emergency management exercises may be used to simulate emergency events in order to train personnel, review and test planning processes, identify needs and/or weaknesses, demonstrate capabilities and to practice people in working together.
The unit applies to personnel who are responsible for implementing and evaluating predesigned emergency management exercises.
The Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Emergency Management) qualification provides the skills and knowledge required to perform a leadership role in emergency or disaster management.
It is suitable for paid professionals or volunteers working across the emergency or disaster management spectrum; Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (PPRR). This qualification addresses both the planning for, and management of major risks in emergencies and recovery operations. The program’s specific focus is on working with the community and other key stakeholders prior to, during and after an emergency incident.
The PUA50120 Diploma of Public Safety (Emergency Management) is designed for personnel undertaking emergency management responsibilities at an incident, emergency or disaster. This will include the coordination of resources, personnel and entities as well as the coordination of activities with other organisations.
The role of personnel is to assist in the management for an incident, emergency or disaster. Personnel undertaking emergency management responsibilities may work in multi-organisational teams.
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to work within an emergency management context. It includes confirming jurisdictional emergency management arrangements, contributing to entity awareness of jurisdictional arrangements, supporting organisational and community emergency planning and decisions and applying knowledge of emergency management arrangements.
The unit applies to personnel preparing to work within an emergency management context. This may include individuals who are undertaking or are preparing to work in an emergency management role within their organisation and/or local community and requires broad knowledge of emergency management arrangements within differing jurisdictions.
This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to collaboratively develop new or undertake the revision of existing emergency plans in an emergency management context. Such plans may focus on comprehensive aspects of emergency management for prevention, preparedness, response and/or recovery.
It includes establishing the emergency planning context and framework, developing agreed planning processes and methodology, undertaking research and analysis for emergency management planning, developing and refining emergency management planning outcomes, documenting the emergency plan and validating the plan.
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to perform a liaison role (a liaison person) between an organisation managing emergency response and/or recovery and another organisation providing services or assistance in those efforts. It involves establishing the purpose and priorities of the managing and supporting organisations, the amount of decision-making authority delegated (if any), and communication channels and reporting requirements.
The liaison person represents their agency to support the coordination of assistance between the managing and supporting organisations.
Based on a request for a liaison person being made and accepted, a liaison person may be sent from a support organisation to the managing organisation, or vice versa. As such, either may be the sending or receiving organisation.
The unit applies to personnel involved in emergency response and/or recovery within or by emergency service organisations, government agencies, private sector businesses, critical infrastructure owners and operators, community groups, not for profit organisations and community event committees.
