Release 1.0  This is the first release of this unit of competency in the PUA Public Safety Training Package.

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.

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

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Emergency Management

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ELEMENTS 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1  

Confirm jurisdictional emergency management arrangements  

1.1 

Emergency management arrangements are identified and accessed

1.2 

Emergency management arrangements are reviewed to identify requirements and the roles and responsibilities for entities

1.3 

Implications of emergency management arrangements for organisational planning, policies, procedures, systems and resource allocation are identified

1.4 

Implications of application of broader emergency management arrangements are identified

2 

Contribute to entity awareness of jurisdictional arrangements 

2.1 

Application of emergency management concepts and principles is conveyed to entities

2.2 

Emergency management arrangements, including roles and responsibilities, are explained

3 

Support organisational and community emergency planning  

3.1 

Strategies to prepare and engage with entities are identified

3.2 

Methodology for conducting an all hazard, risk and vulnerability analysis for the organisation and community are identified

3.3 

Hazards, risks, vulnerability and emergency management plans are located and reviewed

4 

Apply knowledge of emergency management arrangements  

4.1 

Roles and responsibilities within emergency management arrangements are identified and communicated to key entities

4.2 

Emergency management arrangements are applied to designated role or responsibilities

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

This unit replaces and is not equivalent to PUAEMR018 Work in an emergency management context.

Release 1.0  This is the first release of this unit of competency in the PUA Public Safety Training Package.

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and includes

• applying emergency management concepts and principles
• confirming emergency management requirements
• contributing to entity awareness, preparedness and engagement with emergency management concepts and principles
• demonstrating decision making in emergency management
• following organisational policies and procedures
• locating and interpreting emergency management arrangements.

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and includes knowledge of

• emergency management arrangements
• emergency management terminology, concepts and principles
• organisational documentation, policies and procedures
• risk assessment methodology.

Assessors must hold credentials specified within the Standards for Registered Training Organisations current at the time of assessment.

Assessment must satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence and all regulatory requirements included within the Standards for Registered Training Organisations current at the time of assessment.

Assessment must occur in operational situations or in simulated operational training situations that reflect workplace conditions.

Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate.

Resources for assessment must include access to

• a range of exercises and/or case studies
• appropriate materials and equipment currently used in industry including

• emergency management legislation
• organisational plans, policies and procedures

• applicable documentation including standards, equipment specifications, regulations, codes of practice and operational manuals.