PUA60719 Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Community Safety)

The PUA60719 Diploma of Public Safety (Community Safety) is designed for emergency service and public safety personnel who perform in senior management roles with responsibility for community safety programs. Community safety programs seek to build and enhance community resilience, health and wellbeing as it relates to feeling protected from threats, harm, risks or injury.

The role of community safety personnel is to build community safety partnerships, improve individual and community resilience, actively partner and listen to communities, understand community needs and deliver outcomes for at risk communities. This may include planning and managing community safety advertising and awareness campaigns and developing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and community members.

This qualification includes the units of competency required by community safety personnel to perform a range of activities such as strategically planning and managing programs and campaigns that improve community resilience whilst engaging with a broad range of community members and working closely with local governments and other agencies. It typically involves the management of community safety programs including budgets, personnel and resources.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.