Demonstrate knowledge of potential hazards and protection of personal safety at fire and other emergency incidents

Carry out pre-incident building inspection for fire and rescue risk planning

Prepare and submit documentation

Demonstrate knowledge of requirements relating to the checking of hydrants and water supplies

Locate hydrants and carry out inspections

Carry out flow tests and complete reports

Describe the process of creating legislation in the New Zealand parliamentary structure

Demonstrate knowledge of the hierarchy of compliance requirements

Demonstrate knowledge of individual role responsibilities identified in the Fire Service Act 1975

Identify the links between legislation, organisational policy, and operational instructions in fire and rescue services

Identify the key elements of community risk management across community conditions

Use community risk management terminology in specified community risk situations

The conditions leading to flashover

The conditions leading to backdraught

The effects of the harmful constituents of smoke on people

Demonstrate knowledge of salvage and overhaul activities undertaken in fire and rescue services

Provide protection to property and people by applying salvage and overhaul techniques to emergency management activities

Demonstrate knowledge of safe entry to a fire-affected building

Make safe an area of operations and enter a fire-affected building

Select and use fire fighting equipment to suppress fire

Perform support crew duties

demonstrate knowledge of hazards, the principles of ventilation, and ventilation equipment used at emergency incidents

Carry out ventilation operations to assist fire and rescue operations

Recommission ventilation equipment after fire and rescue operations use

Provide resuscitation in an emergency situation

Perform single casualty assessment and treatment in an emergency situation

Apply triage techniques to a mass casualty situation

Demonstrate knowledge of rescue equipment

Demonstrate knowledge of the siting requirements, rescue equipment and continuing maintenance for tool staging areas

Establish, maintain and make up a tool staging area

Demonstrate knowledge of decontamination procedures

Set up decontamination facilities

Decontaminate people and equipment

Carry out decontamination recording and reporting duties

Demonstrate knowledge of the requirements for safe working practices in confined spaces

Select and operate equipment for rescues from confined spaces

Carry out specialised rescues in confined spaces

Recommission confined space equipment and complete reports

Give advice to the public on their rights and responsibilities under legislation in fire and rescue services

Demonstrate knowledge of the application of legislation relevant to fire and rescue emergency operations

Describe the use of community risk management elements in an organisation’s policies and procedures

Apply risk management elements to identified actual and potential risks affecting the local community

Apply risk management elements to identified actual and potential risks affecting the wider community

Describe the consequence and nature of injury to casualties of accidents and entrapment incidents

Take action to provide casualty care in situations of entrapment

Identify the degree of casualty entrapment and act to facilitate casualty release from wreckage

Demonstrate knowledge of the terminology used to describe the construction and component features of vehicles

Prepare vehicles for rescue and extrication activities

Implement glass management techniques on vehicles

Select and apply methods of providing access to casualties

Demonstrate knowledge of the human respiratory system, and the procedures to be followed when wearing BA

Perform BA control procedures in an emergency operation

Wear BA in emergency operation situations

Manage BA for safe use and survivability in emergency fire and rescue operations

Shut down and recommission BA and specialist equipment

Prepare to conduct drills

Conduct drills

Conclude drills, for fire fighting crews

Demonstrate knowledge of aerial appliances required for emergency situations

Select site and prepare an aerial appliance for emergency situations

Position the head of an aerial appliance for emergency situations

Operate ancillary systems required for emergency situations

Make up an aerial appliance after use and complete reports

Building construction and services in relation to fire

Ship construction, cargoes and services in relation to fire

Vehicle construction, cargoes and services in relation to fire

Demonstrate knowledge of the initial incident controller’s obligations to health and safety at fuel fires

Demonstrate knowledge required to control fuel fires

Analyse incident, select strategy and tactics, and prepare the IAP for a fuel fire

Manage the IAP at a fuel fire

Review operational instructions in terms of legislation

Apply operational instructions that support the activities of fire and rescue services as statutory bodies

Classify the processes and conditions governing ignition and flame spread

Analyse the fundamentals of advanced fire development

Demonstrate knowledge of fire severity in structure fires

Identify and control accident scene hazards

Prepare for rescue and extrication activities

Identify manufacturer-fitted supplementary restraint systems (SRS)

Use safety equipment to protect rescuers and casualties from non-deployed SRS

Interpret and apply the legislation, policies, and procedures relating to a fire and rescue service provider’s response to vehicle accidents

Describe the command and control sequences used in the management of vehicle accident scenes

Survey, assess, and manage vehicle accident scenes

Maintain emergency response and preparedness capabilities

Demonstrate knowledge of effective use of ventilation and its relationship to building construction type

Manage ventilation operations at an emergency incident

Demonstrate knowledge of the statutory powers and organisational policy empowering fire and rescue service personnel to investigate fire cause

Identify and collect evidence from the scene of a structural fire

Determine the origin and probable cause of a structural fire

Report on the probable cause of a structural fire

Provide community fire risk management advice

Apply statutory powers

Promote community risk management

Contribute to strategic community fire risk planning

Demonstrate knowledge of the initial incident controller’s obligations to health and safety at hazardous substance incidents

Demonstrate knowledge required to render hazardous substances emergencies safe

Analyse incident, select strategy and tactics, and prepare the IAP for a hazardous substance emergency

Manage the IAP at a hazardous substance emergency

Demonstrate knowledge of the role and responsibilities of an Incident Ground Safety Officer

Identify and respond to hazards, and report on safety during an emergency incident

Demonstrate knowledge of the initial incident controller’s obligations for health and safety at structure fire incidents

Analyse incident, select strategy and tactics, and prepare the IAP for a structure fire

Manage the IAP at a structure fire

 The process of fire development

Fire severity in building compartment fires

Fire behaviour tests

Fire growth models

Demonstrate knowledge required for commanding multiple crews at emergency incidents

Analyse incidents, review strategy and tactics, and assume command of multiple crews at an emergency incident

Develop the IAP and request resources for multiple crews at an emergency incident

Direct and coordinate multiple crews at an emergency incident

Evaluate existing and design new risk management treatments for actual and potential risks affecting the local community

Evaluate existing and design new risk management treatments for actual and potential risks affecting the wider community

Review applied treatments and provide feedback

Demonstrate knowledge of the statutory powers and organisational policy empowering fire and rescue service personnel to investigate fire cause

Identify, gather, control, and retain evidence from the scene of a structural fire

Determine the area of fire origin, establish fire cause, and develop a profile of related events for a structural fire

Report on the cause of a structural fire