Assessor Resource
PUASAR021
Search as part of a canine search team at USAR incidents
Assessment tool
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to deploy a canine search team to search for and locate multiple people concealed in a structural collapse and to manage a canine during the search. A canine search team consists of one disaster search canine and one canine search specialist.
Canine search teams must be capable of working together in disaster search operations to locate victims. A canine must be capable of searching independently and efficiently, as directed by the 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 canine search specialists intending to work with task forces actively involved in USAR incidents and disaster operations.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
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