MRT – Initial Response
What To Expect
Embark on a comprehensive learning experience with our MRT Initial Response course, tailored to equip your team with essential skills for managing worksite incidents effectively. Learn about various firefighting scenarios, including structure fires and heavy machinery incidents, gaining insights into industry best practices and critical equipment care. Through dynamic discussions and interactive workshops, participants will explore team collaboration and accountability, learning how to function cohesively within a skilled response organisation. From mastering safe response techniques to understanding incident management strategies, each session is designed to enhance practical skills and knowledge.
Training Plan
Course Information
Course Outline
Course Length: 6 Days
This course involves a collection of skillsets derived from the fire sector UOC list that relate to large industrial, commercial and urban firefighting processes in line with critical control points in regard to containing and fighting fires which includes skill sets:
- Work as a member of an MRT under limited supervision and observe fire conditions.
- Respond to fires and determine extinguishing media and equipment capabilities.
- Structural, industrial and vehicle fire behavior
- Protecting people and assets
- Attacking fires and ventilating structures
- Undertake ancillary firefighting operations and complete operations
Course Outcomes
- Identify workplace hazards and risks, and advise others
- Implement hazard and risk control procedures
- Monitor effectiveness of hazard and risk control procedures
- Conduct pre-donning checks and tests on breathing apparatus
- Don and check breathing apparatus
- Operate breathing apparatus
- Conclude operations
- Inspect response equipment
- Test response equipment
- Clean, maintain and restow equipment
- Prepare for fire team operations
- Fight or contain fire
- Complete fire team operations
- Audit firefighting installations
- Proceed to fire
- Prepare extinguishing media and/or equipment for use
- Enter the structure
- Conduct search and rescue
- Combat fires
- Observe and react to changes in conditions and fire behaviour
- Participate in ancillary operations
- Conclude firefighting operations
- Initiate response to fire
- Determine extinguishing media and equipment
- Determine structural fire behaviour
- Protect people
- Attack fire
- Ventilate structure
- Observe and react to fire conditions
- Undertake ancillary firefighting operations
- Complete operations
Units of Competency
Following successful completion of this course, a statement of attainment will be presented to each successful student. An option to roll these units of competency into a complete RII30719 Certificate III in Emergency Response and Rescue is available.
Students who attend and successfully meet all assessment requirements of the course will receive a nationally recognised statement of attainment for the Units of Competency listed below.
Units marked with an asterix (*) have pre-requisites that are not included in this course package.
- PUAFIR210 – Prevent injury (pre-requisite for PUAEQU001, PUAFIR207)
- PUAEQU001 – Prepare, maintain and test response equipment
- PUAFIR207 – Operate breathing apparatus open circuit
- RIIERR201E – Conduct fire team operations
- PUAFIR203 – Respond to urban fire (pre-requisite for PUFIR302)
- PUAFIR302 – Suppress urban fire
Pre-Requisites
Pre-requisite for enrolment in this course is.
- HLTAID011- Provide first aid
Statements of attainment are required prior to enrolment. Students who have not yet completed the pre-requisite can attend an extra day prior to the course to complete it.
Entry Requirements
- Active member of an MRT or ERT
- Provide USI and Drivers Licence or Proof of Identity card
- HLTAID011- Provide First Aid (or can be completed by arrangement with ARG)
- Statement of attainment for other pre-requisite units not included in this course package
- Ability to read and interpret calculations, measurements and analog gauges
- Understand and comply with workplace instructions
- Be physically fit and able to work in confined spaces, heated environments, at height or depth, maintain excellent manual handling procedures and maintain safety during mentally challenging activities
- English language skills suitable to read and understand concepts and information for this course
- Ability to act as a team member and continuously strive for safety in a high risk setting
- Identify and assess risks, report hazards and clearly understand the JHA workflow process
- Climb ladders and stairs under load
- Be clean shaven as per AS 1715