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Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop wildfire prevention strategies
- Rate potential wildfire hazards according to fuel loads, climate, location, accessibility, ecology and organisational priorities
- Rate risks to buildings, structures and cultural sites from wildfires according to adjacent fuel loads, climate, location, accessibility and organisational priorities
- Ensure wildfire hazard reduction strategies take into account the local fire history, fuel loads, climate, location, accessibility, geophysical systems, ecology, environmental sustainability practices, biosecurity, organisational procedures and priorities, work health and safety, local fire agencies and legislative requirements
- Gain local community support for proposed wildfire hazard reduction strategy
- Develop strategies for proposed wildfire hazard reduction in accordance with organisational priorities, local fire agencies and legislative requirements
- Ensure strategies comply with work health and safety, public health and safety and animal welfare regulatory requirements and enterprise guidelines
- Implement and monitor wildfire hazard reduction
- Process records
Range Statement
Performance Evidence
The candidate must be assessed on their ability to integrate and apply the performance requirements of this unit in a workplace setting. Performance must be demonstrated consistently over time and in a suitable range of contexts.
The candidate must provide evidence that they can:develop and manage wildfire hazard reduction programs in accordance with enterprise procedures, local fire agencies, work health and safety policies and legislative requirementsrate wildfire risks to the environment, buildings, structures and cultural sites according to fuel loads, climate, location, accessibility and ecologydevelop effective strategies for wildfire hazard reduction that comply with local fire agency and regulatory requirementsplan wildfire hazard reduction programs that take into account local fire history, climate fuel loads, location and accessibilityreview hazard reduction plans, strategies and operational procedures with other agencies to enterprise and regulatory requirementsmaintain records of pesticides and chemical agents used, hazard reduction and fire incidents according to enterprise proceduresmanage consultation with local community to ensure their support for programuse industry standard terminology apply work health and safety policies and procedures in the planning and implementation of wildfire hazard reduction strategiesapply biosecurity measures to wildfire hazard reduction planningincorporate appropriate sustainability practices in wildfire hazard reduction planning
Knowledge Evidence