This course is designed to provide students with the essential knowledge and skills to allow them to respond to vehicle collisions as a member of an emergency response team, across a variety of industries.
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Confined Space Rescue
This course covers the competency associated with the identification, avoidance, review, and evaluation of workplace risks and hazards, maintenance of personal safety and the reporting to supervisors and team members. The course participants will also learn the necessary skills to undertake rescue in confined spaces.
Emergency Services Skills Assessment
The Emergency Services Skills Assessment (ESSA) is a practical, assessment-only evaluation designed to benchmark emergency response capabilities against industry-defined standards. Endorsed by EMCoP (Emergency Management Community of Practice), ESSA ensures a consistent, portable, and industry-recognised measure of operational readiness for personnel operating in high-risk environments.
Operate Pumps Cluster
This course involves the skills and knowledge required to operate portable and appliance-mounted fire fighting pumps safely and efficiently at an emergency situation and covers preparing pumps to deliver water, operating pumps and concluding pump operations. It also includes inspecting response equipment, testing response equipment and cleaning, maintaining and restowing equipment.
Workplace Policies & Procedures
This course is to provide participants with the necessary knowledge to communicate in the workplace, work safely and follow WHS policies and procedures, conduct local risk control and maintain and monitor site quality standards within the Resources and Infrastructure Industries. These units are appropriate for those working in operational roles.
Wildfire Suppression
This course is to provide participants with the necessary skills and practical knowledge on how to effectively respond to a wildfire, apply appropriate fire control strategies and safe work practices to extinguish a wild fire, work as a safe and situationally-aware member of a crew to attack and extinguish a fire, participate in mop-up and patrol operations, and prepare equipment for the next crew.
Vertical Rescue
This course is to provide participants with the knowledge and technical skills to undertake vertical rescue from height or depths in a range of emergency situations using advanced rope rescue techniques and procedures.
Underground Firefighting Cluster
The purpose of this course is to provide course participants with the necessary skills for controlling fires in underground metalliferous mines. Elements and performance criteria include assessing the situation and preparing for fire control operations; controlling the fire; and restoring and refurbishing fire equipment to operational condition.
Respond to Wildfire Cluster
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with the necessary skills and practical knowledge on how to effectively respond to a wildfire, work as a safe and situationally-aware member of a crew to attack and extinguish a fire, participate in mop-up and patrol operations, and prepare equipment for the next crew.
