Environmental Resilience can develop and deliver comprehensive bushfire risk management related training to meet the requirements of your organisation
We specialise in the following areas:
- Fuel load assessment
- Bushfire principles and hazards
- Bushfire risk management planning
- Bushfire mitigation strategies
- Environmental and cultural heritage considerations in bushfire risk management
- Bushfire Management practitioners
- Emergency Management practitioners
- Ranger Services
- Fire Control Officers
- Field staff
The following training packages are available for delivery onsite at your workplace
Fuel Load Assessment and Bushfire Hazard Training (2 Day)
- Awareness of bushfire risks and hazards in a local context
- Understand bushfire behaviour principles and how fuel loads impact fire spread and intensity, including fire weather
- An appreciation of the local government bushfire risk management plan, bushfire prone areas and relevant legislation
- Understand and identify different vegetation classifications and fuel arrangements
- Determine appropriate mitigation measures for bushfire risk reduction
- Ability to utilise tools and resources to accurately carryout fuel load assessments
Day 1:
- Bushfire risk principles and characteristics
- Bushfire risk management
- Bushfire risk mitigation (theory)
- Bushfire risk mitigation (field)
- Fuel load assessment (theory)
Day 2:
- Fuel load assessment (field)
- Numerous sites will be visited, depending on the organisation’s requirements, to ensure participant exposure to a variety of local vegetation types
- This will form the basis of the practical assessment
- Recording fuel assessment data (organisation specific)
- Written assessment
Fuel Load Assessment Training (1 Day)
Also recommended as a refresher course
- Understand and identify different vegetation classifications and fuel arrangements
- Ability to utilise tools and resources to accurately carry out fuel load assessments
- Fuel load assessment (theory)
- Fuel load assessment (field)
Numerous sites will be visited, depending on the organisation’s requirements, to ensure participant exposure to a variety of local vegetation types
Environmental Resilience can customise training packages to suit your local context and organisational processes in the following formats:
- One hour overview presentations
- Half day workshops
- One day to multi day training packages
We can develop and deliver:
- Bushfire and environmental specific training programs
- Induction and onboarding processes
- Office and field-based training packages
- Emergency response exercises and testing of arrangements
- Community education and awareness information materials
- Volunteer bushfire brigade training packages
- Avenza spatial mapping software training
- Staff mentoring programs
