Qualification details

Release 1.  This is the first release of this qualification in the PUA Public Safety Training Package.

The PUA40419 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Biosecurity Emergency Response Leadership) provides individuals with the skills and knowledge to perform a leadership role in a biosecurity emergency response. Pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia pose a risk to the economy, environment and community. Biosecurity involves the mitigation and management of these risks.

The role of a biosecurity emergency response leader is to supervise, direct and oversee teams undertaking assigned actions within a response to an animal, plant, aquatic, environmental or other biosecurity threat. Biosecurity emergency response leader's duties may include leading field teams undertaking activities such as investigations, movement controls or infected premises operations and/or leading teams within an operations centre (the term operations centre is used in accordance with the Biosecurity Incident Management System).

This qualification includes the units of competency required by biosecurity emergency response leaders to direct and oversee teams of biosecurity emergency responders, ensuring all team activities safely, effectively and efficiently implement the relevant aspects of the incident action plan. The range of activities may include coordination of, and contribution to, planning and operational strategy development and logistics relevant to response activities, ensuring appropriate information management, communication with relevant stakeholders and managing the human resource aspects of the team.

Individuals will demonstrate autonomy and judgement in known or changing contexts within established parameters.

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

There are no entry requirements for this qualification.

A total of 11 units of competency comprising

• 5 core units  listed below; plus
• 6 elective units  from the general elective units listed

Choose a minimum of 4 elective units from the elective unit list below.

Select the remaining 2 elective units from the elective unit list below or elsewhere within this training package or another endorsed training package or accredited course.

All elective units selected from outside this qualification must be from an equivalent qualification level or higher and must contribute to the vocational outcome of the qualification.

Elective units selected from outside the qualification must not duplicate content already covered by units in this qualification.

Where imported units are selected, care must be taken to ensure that all prerequisite units specified are complied with.

Where a prerequisite is attached to a unit it is identified by the symbol ∟ .

Core units  

PUAMAN002

Administer allocation of resources

PUAOPE015

Conduct briefings and debriefings

PUAOPE020

Lead a crew

PSPGEN038

Identify and treat risks

BSBWHS401

Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements

General elective units 

AHCBER501

Manage active operational emergency disease or plant pest sites

PUACOM006

Plan and conduct a public awareness program

PUAOPE012

Control a Level 1 incident

PUAOPE016

Manage a multi-team sector

PUAOPE003

Manage the public information function at an incident

PUAOPE022

Manage logistics for a complex incident

PUAOPE023

Manage operations for a Level 2 incident

PUAOPE025

Manage planning for a complex incident

AHCBER401

Plan and supervise control activities on infected premises

AHCPMG510

Develop a pest survey strategy

PUABIO001

Conduct planning in a biosecurity emergency response

PUACOM002

Provide services to clients

This qualification replaces and is not equivalent to PUA42912 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Biosecurity Response Leadership).