Certificate III in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations) - PUA30719
South Australian Country Fire Service
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
CRICOS:
The PUA30719 Certificate III in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations) is designed for experienced firefighting professionals who respond to disasters or incidents endangering life, property and the environment. This includes the use of firefighting assets and making informed, timely and confident decisions at an incident as a member of a firefighting team.The role of a firefighter is to suppress and extinguish fires, to protect lives and to prevent the destruction of property and the environment. To prevent fires from starting, a firefighter's duties may include conducting community education programs about fire safety and undertaking fire inspections of locations to verify adherence to local fire regulations.This qualification includes the units of competency required by firefighters to suppress wildfires or urban fires and to perform a range of other related activities. It typically involves some discretion in selecting equipment, services and contingency measures.The fire sector is those sections of government departments, statutory authorities or organisations that have responsibility under jurisdictional arrangements for the delivery of firefighting and fire management services.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Subjects
- Navigate to an incident
- Provide first aid in remote situations
- Conduct initial investigation at incident scene
- Employ personal protection at a hazardous materials incident
- Undertake a complex transport rescue
- Undertake an urban search and rescue Category 2 rescue technician
- Undertake industrial and domestic rescue
- Identify, detect and monitor hazardous materials at an incident
- Suppress wildfire
- Collect basic surveying data
- Suppress urban fire
- Navigate from an aircraft
- Provide advanced resuscitation
- Operate aerial ignition equipment in an aircraft
- Fall trees manually (intermediate)
- Undertake confined space rescue
- Fall trees manually (advanced)
- Dispatch rappel personnel and equipment from a helicopter
- Operate aerial appliance
- Perform complex 4x4 operations
- Take local weather observations
- Operate aviation support equipment
- Undertake rescue from a partial structural collapse
- Maintain safety at an incident scene
- Plan and conduct a public awareness program
- Trim and cut felled trees
- Provide work skill instruction
- Drive vehicles under operational conditions
- Operate pumps
- Operate specialist appliance
- Foster a positive organisational image in the community
- Undertake road crash rescue
- Operate heavy plant in fire control operations
- Undertake swiftwater and floodwater rescue and recovery
- Respond to aviation incidents (general)
- Operate and maintain chainsaws
- Undertake vertical rescue
- Provide first aid
- Render hazardous materials incidents safe
- Respond to marine emergencies
- Utilise installed fire safety systems
- Push trees with machines in forest fire control operations
- Lead a crew
- Undertake trench rescue
- Work autonomously
- Undertake community safety activities
- Produce basic maps
