Develop Prescibed Burning Plans

PUAFIR406B – Develop prescribed burning plans

CERTIFICATE IV

Overview

The safe and effective conduct of a prescribed burn requires careful and thorough planning at the strategic and operational level to ensure the agreed objectives are achieved. This learner resource will assist an individual to gain the skills and knowledge to develop plans for conducting a prescribed burn in the agency’s area of jurisdiction.

Target

audience

The target audience for this training are individuals who are experienced in wildfire suppression and are required by their agency to become proficient in developing plans for prescribed burning in areas for which their organisation is responsible.

Nominal

duration

40 hours

Relationship to PUA units

This document is part of the support materials for the unit of competency, PUAFIR406B Develop Prescribed Burning Plans. PUAFIR406B is an elective unit in Certificate IV in Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision).

Course
content

This learner resource is divided into three sections.

·         Section 1 discusses identification of burning requirements including identification of target areas and the development of burn objectives for life and property protection, forest and environmental management.

·         Section 2 discusses steps involved in preparing a prescribed burn plan and strategies, tactics and tasks.

·         Section 3 covers monitoring arrangements that should be considered prior to, during and after implementation of a prescribed burn.

Each state/territory and agency will have its own protocols and procedures for developing prescribed burning plans. It is important to remember that each prescribed burn plan should be considered within a broader context. Implementation of the burn plan is addressed in the Learning Resource PUAFIR407A ‘Conduct a Prescribed Burn’.

Learning objectives

On completion of PUAFIR406B, participants will be able to:

·         develop prescribed burning plans so as to meet identified objectives through the use of a range of strategies

·         identify the factors to be considered in planning a prescribed burn

·         describe and develop burn objective/s

·         plan a prescribed burn

·         describe the procedures for monitoring the progress of implementation of a prescribed burning plan, including recording all relevant information pre- and post-burn

·         distinguish between the monitoring and assessment of a prescribed burn from a strategic and operational (prescribed burn) level.