Qualification details

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

The PUA60719 Diploma of Public Safety (Community Safety) is designed for emergency service and public safety personnel who perform in senior management roles with responsibility for community safety programs. Community safety programs seek to build and enhance community resilience, health and wellbeing as it relates to feeling protected from threats, harm, risks or injury.

The role of community safety personnel is to build community safety partnerships, improve individual and community resilience, actively partner and listen to communities, understand community needs and deliver outcomes for at risk communities. This may include planning and managing community safety advertising and awareness campaigns and developing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and community members.

This qualification includes the units of competency required by community safety personnel to perform a range of activities such as strategically planning and managing programs and campaigns that improve community resilience whilst engaging with a broad range of community members and working closely with local governments and other agencies. It typically involves the management of community safety programs including budgets, personnel and resources.

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 12 units of competency comprising

• 3 core units  listed below; plus
• 9 elective units  from the general elective units listed

Choose a minimum of 7 elective units from the general 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.

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.

Prerequisites attached to any of the units must be obtained and are additional to the number of units required for this qualification.

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

By default, all prerequisites listed with ∟ become part of the core and elective units of this qualification. 

Core units  

PUACOM004

Manage organisational communication strategies

PUACOM008

Develop and organise public safety awareness programs

PUAEMR009

Facilitate emergency risk assessment

General elective units 

PUACOM007

Liaise with other organisations

PUAEMR007

Develop emergency management plans

PUAEMR010

Plan and implement a treatment measure

PUAFIR509

Implement prevention strategies

PUAEMR012

Determine treatment options

∟ PUAEMR008 Contribute to an emergency risk management process

∟ PUAEMR009 Facilitate emergency risk assessment

PUAEMR011

Manage and evaluate emergency management exercises

PUAEMR013

Design emergency management exercises

PUAFIR602

Manage the implementation of community safety strategies

PUAWHS004

Establish and maintain the work, health and safety system

PUAFER003

Manage and monitor facility emergency procedures, equipment and other resources

PUAFER006

Lead an emergency control organisation

∟ PUAFER005 Operate as part of an emergency control organisation

PUAFER007

Manage an emergency control organisation

PUAFER010

Lead a facility emergency response team

∟ PUAFER009 Participate as a member of a facility emergency response team

PUAFER011

Manage facility emergency response teams

PUALAW004

Represent the organisation in a judicial or quasi-judicial setting

PUAMAN001

Manage the organisation's public safety responsibilities

PUAMAN003

Manage human resources

PUAMAN005

Manage projects

PUAMAN006

Manage and facilitate change

PUAMAN007

Manage financial resources

PUAMAN008

Manage physical resources

PUAPRO001

Promote a learning environment in the workplace

PUAPRS205

Manage marketing requirements

PUATEA003

Lead, manage and develop teams

BSBADV602

Develop an advertising campaign

BSBADV603

Manage advertising production

BSBADV604

Execute an advertising campaign

BSBADV605

Evaluate campaign effectiveness

LGAPLEM606B

Develop ecologically sustainable land management systems

PSPREG027

Manage regulatory compliance

PSPREG028

Evaluate regulatory compliance

This qualification replaces and is equivalent to PUA60712 Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Community Safety)