RESCUE CLUSTER
Pre-requisities
PREVENT INJURY (PUAFIR210)
This unit covers the competency required to identify and avoid workplace hazards and risks, to maintain personal safety and to report identified issues to supervisors and team members.
This unit is designed as an introduction to safe work practices and is specifically relevant to a workplace requiring people to be involved in incidents, prescribed burning and/or operational aspects of emergency management.
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This unit applies to personnel who work as a member of a team. Work at this level is undertaken under direct supervision and instruction.
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This unit is a pre-requisite to PUAFIR207
PARTICIPATE IN A RESCUE OPERATION (PUASAR022)
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to participate in rescue operations as a member of a rescue team; it underpins specialist rescue operations. This includes a wide range of rescue and environmental situations which may incorporate industrial, rural, bush and extreme environmental conditions.
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Typically, personnel performing these roles have completed induction or recruitment training and are commencing work as a member of an operational team. They will work under supervision in a team but may be responsible for completing singular tasks relating to a rescue.
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It is applicable to personnel from the emergency services, volunteer organisations and/or associated industries.
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This unit is a pre-requisite to both PUASAR024 & PUASAR025
PROVIDE EMERGENCY CARE (PUAEME001)
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to provide emergency care pending the arrival of appropriately qualified personnel.
It includes identifying need for emergency care, ensuring personal safety of carer and casualty, reassuring casualty, assessing casualty and implementing emergency care procedures, working cooperatively with personnel from other organisations, recovering and restoring first aid equipment and completing documentation.
This unit is a pre-requisite to PUAEME002
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MANAGE INJURIES AT EMERGENCY INCIDENT (PUAEME002)
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to manage injuries at an emergency which may include the use of equipment.
It includes assessing the scene and the casualty, implementing emergency management procedures, moving the casualty and completing required documentation.
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