Public Safety Fire Operations

The VET Public Safety program aims to provide students with an introductory overview of Community Safety. Students are provided with the opportunity to acquire and develop skills in Occupational Health and Safety, working in teams, communicating in the workplace and wildfire skills, as well as meeting the VCAL industry skills strand.

The VET Public Safety program aims to provide students with an introductory overview of Community Safety. Students are provided with the opportunity to acquire and develop skills in Occupational Health and Safety, working in teams, communicating in the workplace and wild re skills, as well as meeting the VCAL industry skills strand.

The aims of the VET Public Safety course include:

• Providing students with the knowledge and skills to achieve competencies that will enhance their employment prospects in the community safety industries.

• Enabling students to gain a recognised credit and make a more informed choice of vocation and career paths.

• Enabling students to have practical experience in the application of their theory work.
  
  Qualifcations:
  
  Students who satisfactorily complete VET Public Safety program will receive the Certificate II in Public Safety. They will also complete a level 2 first aid course and White card qualifications.
  
  Units of work:

• Prevent injury

• Prepare and maintain test response equipment

• Respond to wild fire

• Community safety

• Communicate in the workplace

• Follow OH&S policies

• Respond to isolated structure fire

• Check installed re safety systems

• Operate communication systems

• Maintain safety at an incident scene

• Protect and Preserve an incident scene

Pathways:

The VCE VET Public safety program provides an introductory overview of community safety which can lead to employment opportunities in most career fields, but focus heavily on community safety fields such as CFA, SES, Police and Defence (Army, Navy, Air Force).