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Evidence Guide: PUAPOL001B - Maintain operational safety

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PUAPOL001B - Maintain operational safety

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Monitor and assess situational risks in workplaces

  1. Situational safety is monitored and assessed and well informed judgements are made in accordance with agreed operational practices and the surrounding environment
  2. Potential risks to own safety, the safety of fellow officers and members of the public are quickly and correctly identified assessed and monitored
Situational safety is monitored and assessed and well informed judgements are made in accordance with agreed operational practices and the surrounding environment

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Potential risks to own safety, the safety of fellow officers and members of the public are quickly and correctly identified assessed and monitored

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Maintain a safe working environment

  1. Operational safety responses/procedures are identified and/or planned and implemented within organisation's procedures and policies
  2. Equipment, materials and environment are assessed for hazards and protective action is planned to ensure the health and safety of people
  3. Safety issues are evaluated and advised to the relevant officers and alternate responses are devised
  4. Appropriate protective clothing and equipment are correctly identified, worn and utilised where and when required
  5. Incidents are identified and observations are recorded and reported accurately, promptly and in the required format to relevant personnel
Operational safety responses/procedures are identified and/or planned and implemented within organisation's procedures and policies

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Equipment, materials and environment are assessed for hazards and protective action is planned to ensure the health and safety of people

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Safety issues are evaluated and advised to the relevant officers and alternate responses are devised

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Appropriate protective clothing and equipment are correctly identified, worn and utilised where and when required

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Incidents are identified and observations are recorded and reported accurately, promptly and in the required format to relevant personnel

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Employ defensive tactics

  1. Situations are assessed correctly and informed judgements made as appropriate for the use of defensive tactics and/or physical restraint techniques
  2. Defensive tactics and/or restraining techniques are applied in accordance with jurisdictional law, organisational policy and procedures and subject to surrounding conditions
  3. Documentation regarding the 'use of force' is completed and submitted in accordance with organisational requirements
  4. Defensive tactics and restraining skills are applied at the appropriate situations and to organisational standard
Situations are assessed correctly and informed judgements made as appropriate for the use of defensive tactics and/or physical restraint techniques

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Defensive tactics and/or restraining techniques are applied in accordance with jurisdictional law, organisational policy and procedures and subject to surrounding conditions

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Documentation regarding the 'use of force' is completed and submitted in accordance with organisational requirements

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Defensive tactics and restraining skills are applied at the appropriate situations and to organisational standard

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

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

It is essential for this unit that competence be demonstrated in identifying workplace safety risks, work practices and defensive tactics to ensure the safety of self and others

Consistency in performance

Evidence should be gathered over a period of time in a range of actual or simulated workplace environments

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Context of assessment

Evidence should be gathered over a period of time in a range of actual or simulated workplace environments

Specific resources for assessment

All necessary equipment for operational safety and vehicles and standard organisational operational accoutrements are available

Guidance information for assessment

Information that will assist or guide assessment will be written during Phase II of the Review of the PUA00 Public Safety Training Package.

Required Skills and Knowledge

This describes the essential skills and knowledge and their level, required for this unit.

Required Skills

Recognising and accurately assessing situational risks/hazards

Planning, implementing and where necessary adapting workplace safety responses to situational contexts

Minimising workplace risks to self, colleagues and the public

Effectively communicating safety issues/concerns to colleagues, supervisors and when necessary other emergency service workers and the public

Effectively communicate with a wide range of community members such as those with physical/sensory/intellectual impairment and cultural differences

The most appropriate 'use of force' (restraining and defensive tactics)

Safe operation and use of general issue and emergency operational equipment and safety clothing

Safe operation of police vehicles under a variety of operational and environmental contexts

Required Knowledge

Organisational OH&S legislation as it applies to policing

Organisational policy and procedures covering operational safety issues/practices

Potential risks associated with a full range of non-specialist operational policing activities

Established strategies to optimise safety under a range of operational scenarios

The 'use of force', its legal parameters and reporting requirements in relation to operations

General 'duty of care' responsibilities

OH&S Guidelines for lifting and carrying persons

Range Statement

The Range Statement relates to the Unit of Competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording in the Performance Criteria is detailed below.

Workplaces may include

police stations

watch-houses

foot or mobile patrol environments

crime/incident scenes

public crowd/traffic control tasking sites

sporting and social venues

industrial/business/domestic buildings

public transport systems

Monitoring and assessing situations may include

identification and valuation of the potential risks (and their strengths) arising from a situation or a situation's particular 'time frame'

techniques such as personal observation

reviewing previous reports

gathering existing situational intelligence from colleagues

other emergency service workers and/or public present at site

analysis of situational intelligence and evidence

communication with other agencies such as RTA

Local Government

Community Services

Potential risks may include

matters or events that could harm persons

buildings of property and could be already present or evolve as a result of actions taken

Safe working practices should focus on the techniques/strategies that optimise the present and future safety of persons and property involved or present at the given workplace site and cover practices/matters including but not limited to

crowd control

situational communication techniques

dealing with aggressive/violent/intoxicated/drugged/ injured/uncooperative persons

operation of police vehicles and equipment including weapons

use of force' techniques/options/strategies

use of safety clothing (visibility vests, wet weather gear, riot clothing/headgear, rubber gloves, etc)

warning devices (portable lamps, signs, torches) and safety barriers/ warning tapes

dealing with potentially hazardous substances such as noxious gases, chemicals, fuels

prevention of disease transmissions

lifting and carry persons

risk assessment and contingency planning

Safety issues may include

Safety issues are defined as issues/matters that may impact on the future safety of officers and could include faulty equipment

inappropriate operational procedures or the need for skills enhancement

Communication in the context of this unit

In this unit communication is focused on 'officer survival' and therefore covers communication techniques required for dealing with potentially hazardous situations either as a single officer or in partnership with other officers/emergency service workers and includes both verbal and non-verbal techniques

Self defence and/or restraining techniques may include

the range of offensive/defensive skills and tactics sanctioned by an organisation to enable an officer to defend against or restrain persons attempting to physically harm themselves

the officer

colleagues or members of the public