Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Fire Investigation)

To be eligible to study this course, applicants must meet the following entry requirements:

• Be working in a Fire Investigation role as you will be required to carry out work-based activities to complete the course and/or,
• Be working in the fire sector, that is, those sections of government departments, statutory authorities or organisations that have responsibility under jurisdictional arrangements for the delivery of firefighting and fire management services and/or,
• Be working in the police sector in a policing agency and/or,
• Be working in another organisation, either private or public, that requires the fire investigation qualification.

Before undertaking this qualification, candidates working in the fire sector must achieve the following pre-requisite units:

• PUALAW002 Conduct initial investigation at incident scene and/or,
• PUALAW001 Protect and preserve incident scene and/or,
• PUAFIR210 Prevent injury and/or,
• PUAFIR302 Suppress urban fire.

In this Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Fire Investigation) course, the subjects students may study include:

• POLFOR021 – Use and maintain specialist forensic equipment
• PUAFIR605 – Determine origin and cause of mobile property fire
• PUAFIR606 – Apply principles of combustion and fire dynamics to fire scene investigation
• PUAFIR607 – Apply electrical/electronic knowledge to fire investigations
• PUAFIR608 – Investigate fatal fires
• PUAFIR609 – Collect, record and coordinate the analysis of physical evidence
• PUAFIR610 – Manage imaging and electronic data
• PUALAW003 – Give evidence in a judicial or quasi-judicial setting
• PUALAW004 – Represent the organisation in a judicial or quasi-judicial setting
• PUAWHS002 – Maintain safety at an incident scene
• CPPINV3032 – Develop factual investigation reports
• PSPREG039 – Gather information through interviews
• PUAFIR604 – Determine origin and cause of structure fire
• PUAFIR501 – Conduct fire investigation and analysis activities
• PUAFIR612 – Undertake post incident analysis