This course will occur over and enrolment period of 10 weeks, with some limited pre and post face-to-face workshop course work. The main face to face component is a 3 day course: 26-28 May, location Melbourne area.

This course includes two vocational Units of Competency:

PUAEMR011 - Manage and evaluate emergency management exercises This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to manage and evaluate activities which exercise elements of emergency management arrangements.

It includes preparing and managing exercise activities to any context in which an emergency management exercise is appropriate and evaluating outcomes against exercise objectives. Emergency management exercises may be used in any context where there is a requirement to plan for or manage an emergency. An exercise scale can range from a small activity in a volunteer emergency response unit to a major evacuation exercise for an industrial plant. The unit applies to personnel who are responsible for implementing and evaluating pre-designed emergency management exercises.

PUAEMR013 - Design emergency management exercises This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to design, develop and/or modify activities that exercise elements of emergency management exercise arrangements. It includes determining exercise purpose by designing and planning exercise activities, assessing exercise risks and then planning resource allocation Emergency management exercises are used to test emergency plans, practice responding to an emergency, develop and/or practise emergency management skills, build motivation for emergency management personnel and/or measure an organisation’s ability to manage an emergency. An exercise can range from a small activity in a volunteer emergency response unit to a major evacuation exercise for an industrial plant. The unit applies to personnel with responsibility for designing emergency management exercises. The design skills in this unit can be applied to any context in which an emergency management exercise is appropriate.