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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Develop wildfire prevention strategies
  2. Implement and monitor wildfire hazard reduction
  3. Process records

Required Skills

Required skills

develop wildfire prevention strategies

implement and monitor wildfire hazard reduction

process records

use literacy skills to fulfil job roles as required by the organisation The level of skill may range from reading and understanding documentation to completion of written reports

use oral communication skillslanguage competence to fulfil the job role as specified by the organisation including questioning active listening asking for clarification negotiating solutions and responding to a range of views

use numeracy skills to estimate calculate and record complex workplace measures

use interpersonal skills to work with others and relate to people from a range of cultural social and religious backgrounds and with a range of physical and mental abilities

Required knowledge

wildfire prevention strategies

organisational environment and relative values

organisational procedures legislative and OHS requirements

local authorities agencies and other land users

hazards associated with wildfire prevention strategies

fire behaviour in a ruralbush environment

range of equipment applicable to wildfire hazard reduction

approved safe use of equipment

environmental public health and safety issues

types of chemical and biological hazards and how they should be handled

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package

Overview of assessment

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

The evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit must be relevant to workplace operations and satisfy holistically all of the requirements of the performance criteria and required skills and knowledge and include achievement of the following

rate wildfire hazards to the environment buildings structures and cultural sites according to fuel loads climate location accessibility and ecology

develop strategies for wildfire hazard reduction

coordinate hazard reduction plans strategies and operational procedures with other agencies and reviewed

maintain records of pesticides and chemical agents used hazard reduction and fore incidents

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Competency requires the application of work practices under work conditions Selection and use of resources for some worksites may differ due to the regional or enterprise circumstances


Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole.

Wildfire hazards may include:

the amount of flammable vegetation

type of vegetation (e.g., grass, heath, peat, crops, scrub or forest)

buildings

structures

mobile property.

Wildfire hazard reduction strategies may include:

slashing

clearing vegetation

animal grazing

spraying vegetation with chemical and biological agents

insurance

community education

regular facilities and building maintenance

safe storage or removal of hazardous materials.