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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to work in a recovery environment
   • Organisational self-care steps are identified as part of a personal work preparation plan
2. In readiness for pre-deployment, appropriate support resources for own health and wellbeing and work output are researched and documented
3. Confirm context of recovery
   • Interoperability between disaster recovery and prevention, preparedness and response is verified
4. Activities that can support recovery in the prevention, preparedness and response phases of emergency management are identified
5. Building of disaster resilience through all aspects of emergency management is identified
6. The recovery life cycle is described
7. Apply the principles of disaster recovery
   • Community-led approaches to recovery and their benefits are identified and documented
8. Importance of having a planned, coordinated and adaptive approach to a community-led recovery is verified
9. Principles of effective communication with disaster-affected individuals, communities and other stakeholders are implemented
10. Recovery activities that recognise, support and build individual, community and organisational capacity are confirmed
11. Confirm recovery environments
    • Social environment areas that may be subject to direct and indirect effects are identified
12. Built environment impact categories that may be subject to direct and indirect effects are identified
13. Economic environment sectors that may be subject to direct and indirect effects are identified
14. Components of the natural environment that may be subject to direct and indirect effects are identified
15. Communicate across the recovery environment
    • Communications approaches with disaster-affected individuals, communities and stakeholders is relevant, clear and targeted
16. Communication channels that may be used to establish and maintain two-way communication with disaster-affected people, communities and stakeholders are identified
17. Feedback on effectiveness of communications is sought and referred to appropriate personnel and changes are made where necessary

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 PUA Public Safety Training Package 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 include the following as they relate to recovery scenarios:

communicating effectively with disaster-impacted individuals following organisational policies and procedures maintaining personal wellbeing and self-care outlining recovery activities related to the emergency management phases of prevention, preparedness, response and recovery supporting a diverse range of disaster-affected individuals and communities working collaboratively with disaster-affected individuals, communities and other stakeholders.

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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 include knowledge of:

aspects of recovery: early recovery medium to longer-term recovery preparedness and activation relief - typically immediate community-led recovery approaches communication channels used in disaster recovery definitions of disaster, recovery and resilience disaster-affected people and communities diversity and inclusion effective communication principles factors for consideration when working in a recovery environment methods of communication used in disaster recovery media policy National Principles for Disaster Recovery principles for communicating in recovery prevention, preparedness, response and recovery (PPRR) phases of emergency management, their intersection and activities undertaken to support recovery and resilience recovery environments recovery stakeholders self-care transition from recovery to mainstream services/ongoing community development, renewal and regeneration typical reactions that people exposed to a traumatic event may experience.

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