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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for operations
   • Collect, store and check for presence and serviceability equipment, tools and stores required for responses to improvised explosive device reports
2. Brief personnel required to respond to callout on their duties and response requirements
3. Establish and maintain contact and liaison with other emergency services
4. Conduct planning prior to arrival at scene in response to call out
5. Locate, assess and identify improvised explosive device
   • Establish contact with other attending emergency services
6. Advise controlling authority of safety and evacuation requirements
7. Locate device and identify components
8. Investigate and identify improvised explosive device construction
9. Determine and plan method of conducting disposal/render safe procedure
10. Conduct render safe procedure and/or dispose of improvised explosive device
    • Identify and prepare to use equipment required to render safe/dispose of improvised explosive device
11. Operate equipment in accordance with current instructions
12. Inspect device and immediate area and declare safe or plan alternate disposal operation/render safe procedure
    • Recover, refurbish and secure equipment
13. Conduct post improvised explosive device disposal clearance
14. Complete and process improvised explosive device disposal reports
15. Provide technical evidence to inquiries/courts

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and includes:

applying consequent mitigation principles applying safety template requirements applying time management calculating and applying time and safety distance conducting site preparation and refurbishment operating specialist explosive ordnance disposal vehicle maintaining documentation reading, accessing, interpreting and applying technical instructions liaising with other agencies preparing and operating equipment, tools and stores gathering and securing evidence interpreting photos and x-ray imaging applying manual handling and team lifting techniques using PPE handling dangerous good and hazardous substances safely

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and includes:

Operational knowledge of: blast/fragmentation/thermal mitigation construction, characteristics and limitations of improvised explosive device to be disposed/rendered safe characteristics and limitations of improvised explosive device to be disposed/rendered safe documentation requirements equipment handling requirements initiation procedures net explosive quantity estimations operational safety relevant testing procedures safety distance calculation procedures

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