Assessor Resource
PUAFIR415
Supervise machinery use in wildfire operations
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
This unit applies to personnel who supervise machine operators and are tasked, by the operations function of the Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System (AIIMS), to provide an essential interface between the machine operator and the command structure at incidents.
This unit covers the competency required to task and supervise the use of machinery to undertake a range of activities to support fireground operations, including control line construction and rehabilitation, reduction and removal of hazards, improvement of existing tracks and roads, creating access and egress to control lines, constructing helipads and assisting in blacking out.
No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
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