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Conduct a fire safety inspection and a critical follow-up

You are a Community Safety Officer in Community Safety and Prevention.

Intermediate3 to 4 hours8 tasks
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The situation

What has happened

Two inspections fall to you this week. The first is a scheduled inspection of an aged care facility at Grovedale, triggered after crews responding to an automatic fire alarm on 9 September observed a slow evacuation. The second is a follow-up at a backpacker hostel in Torquay where a rear exit was found chained on 3 September and a critical notice was issued. Aged care residents and hostel guests are among the most vulnerable people in a fire. The Community Safety and Fire Prevention Policy requires every non-compliance to be graded and critical matters to be acted on before you leave the site, and the manager has asked to be called from the hostel if the exit is still chained.

Your brief. Plan and conduct both inspections lawfully and thoroughly using the inspection form, grade every non-compliance, act on critical matters on site, make referrals where required, enter both inspections in the register on the day and brief the manager on the outcomes.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Two completed Fire Safety Inspection Report Forms
  • Two register entries with grades, notices and follow-up dates
  • Photographic evidence list for each non-compliance
  • A briefing note to the Manager Community Safety

Documents to use

Systems to use

Inspections, Permits and Programs Register

Tracks building and dangerous goods inspections, non-compliances and follow-ups, burn permits, prescribed burn approvals and community education programs.

Incident and Dispatch Log

The official record of every incident and request for assistance, with type, location, resources, incident level, control times, safety officer and debrief status.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Public Safety as at 10 September 2026.

PUAFIR301Undertake community safety activities
PUAOPE011Inspect property and facilities
PUACOM014Contribute to community safety
PUAFIR206Check installed fire safety systems
PUACOM002Provide services to clients

Qualifications

PUA31422Certificate III in Public Safety (Community Safety)
PUA41120Certificate IV in Public Safety (Community Safety)
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Assess lawful and professional conduct of the inspection, thorough coverage of the systems listed in the form, accurate grading against the policy definitions, decisive on site action for a critical matter, correct referral decisions, register entries completed on the day, and a briefing that connects the findings to education opportunities. Role play with a facility manager and a hostel operator supports the evidence.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.