Course Title: Operate in isolated and remote situations

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C2163 Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management

Course Title: Operate in isolated and remote situations

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

Course Contact: Bruce Partland

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 8323

Course Contact Email: bruce.partland@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This competency standard covers the ability to plan, prepare for and work safely in isolated and remote situations. Operating in isolated and remote situations requires knowledge of maps and mapping reading, local topography, nearby inhabitants and locations within that area, survival techniques and human needs relating to survival situations, clothing requirements for sun or heat protection, basic first aid, and the operation of communication equipment and distress signalling.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	RTD2703A Operate in isolated and remote situations
Elements:	Operate in remote environments Plan for operating in remote environments Prepare for emergency situations Prepare for operating in remote environments

Learning Outcomes

This program is competency based.

Overview of Assessment

The knowledge requirements for this unit are listed below:
• Map reading and navigation skills including direction finding (e.g., GPS, use of compass, stars or watch).
• Local topography, nearby inhabitants and locations within that area.
• Survival techniques and human needs relating to survival situations.
• Clothing requirements for sun or heat protection.
• Basic first aid.
• Bush craft including making a fire, cooking and wild food gathering.
• Water supplies, sources and generation methods.
• Emergency vehicle and mechanical equipment repair.
• The operation of communication equipment (e.g., field communications by two-way, satellite telephony and HF radio),and distress signalling including use of signalling mirrors.
• Weather and weather indicators.
• Basic rope skills including useful knots (reef, clove hitch,truckie’s hitch, bowline); simple lashings and tying down loads.