Assessor Resource
PUASAR020
Develop a canine search team for USAR incidents
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to prepare a canine search team to search for and locate people concealed in a structural collapse, and to manage a search canine during an incident. A canine search team consists of one disaster search canine and one canine search specialist.
The types of incidents that may require an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) canine search team, working as a member of a USAR task force, includes earthquakes, terrorist incidents, aircraft crashes, disasters or major structural collapses.
The unit is applicable to personnel actively involved in and/or training as canine search specialists for USAR incidents and disaster operations.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
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