Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify burn area and burn objectives
- Burn objectives are identified and consultation process is undertaken, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Target consultation groups are identified, and consultation process is initiated, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Legislative and regulatory requirements are identified and complied with throughout planning process
- Prepare prescribed burnplan for a complex burn
- Risks from the proposed burn, both on and off site, are assessed and considered in planning process including operational hazards, safety of people, protection of property, assets, environmental and ecological risks
- Results of consultation are factored into the planning process, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Fire behaviour to meet burn objectives and to account for variations in fuel, terrain and weather is determined
- Burn ignition strategies and tactics suited to location that provide required fire behaviour and intensity are determined, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Lighting techniques and patterns for both ground based and aerial ignition for specific burn are identified
- Strategies for mitigating hazards and risks are identified and preparatory works are implemented
- Strategies and tactics for controlling prescribed burn are identified
- Type and quantity of resources required are identified
- Conditions for implementation of burn ignition strategies and tactics are specified, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Prescribed burn plan is prepared, in accordance with organisational procedures
- Contingencies are outlined in prescribed burn plan
- Gain prescribed burn planapproval
- Modifications and amendments to prescribed burn plan are made, based on feedback received
- Prescribed burn plan approval is gained