PUAEMR005A: Design and manage activities which exercise elements of emergency management

Who should participate?
Emergency service / emergency management personnel who may be involved to a significant degree in the design and conduct of emergency management exercises.
It is suggested that people involved in the following job roles would benefit from this program: Middle level management officers in the emergency management industry who carry out any type of simulations including rehearsals, drills or exercises - either in discussion, part deployment or full deployment formats.

Unit Descriptor
This unit covers the competency to design and manage activities which exercise elements of emergency management. Exercising is a key part of emergency management. Exercises may be used to train people, to test planning processes, to identify weaknesses and a variety of other reasons. The design and conduct of an exercise is a systematic process involving planning, documenting, conducting and evaluating.

Content
1.  Determine objectives (for an emergency management exercise)
2.  Design an exercise
3.  Manage an exercise
4.  Evaluate the outcomes of an emergency management exercise

Assessment and Certification
An activity will be set for all participants, which must be completed prior to commencement.
Participants will be required to collect a range of evidence to demonstrate competence. These may include workplace documents, 3rd party reports, on-campus simulations and activities, interview and short work-based projects.
Participants will be required to successfully complete all assessment tasks in order to be awarded a Statement of Attainment.

Prerequisite
In order to successfully complete this program, participants should have a sound working knowledge of the State/Territory emergency management arrangements and the role their particular agency would play in a major emergency. In addition, attendance at a State/Territory Introduction to Emergency Management course will enable participants to fully participate in the program.
Pathways
This unit of competency is included in the qualifications in the Public Safety Training package as listed in Appendix B.
This unit may also be included in other qualifications in the Public Safety Training Package and the Training Packages/ qualifications of other industries.