Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SITTTOP005 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Operate tours in a remote area
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SITTTOP005 - Operate tours in a remote area |
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Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work on tours visiting remote areas. It requires the ability to use bushcraft and survival skills, operate communications equipment and conduct tours with minimal impact. There is also a focus on the ability to respond to emergency situations.The unit applies to tour operators taking customers to remote areas. Those experiences may be day or extended tours. People working independently in the field, within established organisational procedures undertake this role. This could include owner-operators or guides.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a remote area where bushcraft and survival techniques can be demonstrated. This can be: a real tour a simulated industry activity or tour set up for the purposes of assessment. Assessment must ensure access to: customers and remote tours sufficient in number to reflect typical experiences; these can be: customers in an industry workplace who are assisted by the individual during the assessment process; or individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation camping equipment navigation and communication equipment: compass EPIRB GPS radio communication equipment transportation and other equipment used on remote tours. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors; and: have worked in industry for at least three years where they have applied the skills and knowledge of this unit of competency. |
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Competency Field | Tour Operations |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Use bushcraft and survival techniques. |
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Element: Operate remote area communications equipment. |
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Element: Conduct remote area touring activities with minimal impact. |
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