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Public Safety - On the Road
 The past three months have seen John Scott, Public Safety Industry Advisory Officer (IAO) and John Nibbs, Defence IAO travel to 11 regional and capital city locations across Australia to conduct information sessions on the Public Safety Training Package.
The sessions aimed to provide details on what constitutes the Public Safety Industry and how specific industries are represented within Public Safety and Government Skills Australia. The majority of sessions conducted were held after lunch following on from a generic GSA information session in the morning.
Janet Curran from the Fire and Emergency Services Authority (FESA), an attendee at the Perth information session held on Wednesday, 12th of September said: “It has been valuable to get together with other industry sectors to discuss initiatives that are being considered across GSA.”
Back home, a detailed funding submission for Phase 2 of the Review of the Public Safety Training Package has been forwarded to the Department of Education, Science and Training. The proposal seeks appropriate funding as requested by the industry sectors and an assurance of continued funding to the end of the 2008 - 2009 financial year. A proposal has also been developed for funding from the Department of Health and Ageing to improve the skills of Police in managing crisis situations involving people with dementia and their carers.
GSA welcomed a new staff member. Andy Smith was seconded by Emergency Management Australia from the Department of Justice, Victoria and has now commenced a full-time Project Officer role with GSA across a number of sectors of the Public Safety Training Package Review.
The combined Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) conference held in Adelaide in August provided an excellent forum for the Public Safety IAC to consider new National training issues and to develop future project proposals.
The PUA00 Public Safety Training Package Version 6 was endorsed on 12 July ‘07 and is available in CD Version from the GSA e-shop.
Public Safety Training Package Review
The major review of the Public Safety Training Package has commenced. Click here to find out more.
PUA00 Public Safety Training Package - Version 6
The current version of the PUA00 Public Safety Training Package is Version 6 following the endorsement of new Defence sector units of competency and qualifications. This Training Package is available from the GSA e-shop. Please note: following the endorsement of this Training Package in July 2007, some minor changes have been made to the Training Package which have now been incorporated into the latest version available on the e-shop. Changes to PUA00 V6 CD ROM.
Click here for more detailed information on the incorporation of Employability Skills, the new Public Safety unit of competency template and new competencies and qualifications in Version 6.
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