REC228-1624

The Emergency Services Agency should:
a) review the ACT Rural Fire Service’s target for its members holding recognised units of competency, and the timeframe for achieving the target level of competency;
b) review its training and development activities in order to meet its model of service, and the Rural Fire Service’s contribution towards the ACT’s strategic bushfire capability (Recommendation 19), taking into account the level of cross crewing that is feasible;
c) continue liaising and collaborating where possible with the Parks Brigade over the Brigade planning and implementation of its training and development activity;
d) prepare and maintain medium-term training and development plans for the ACT Rural Fire Service; and
e) determine a target for incident management team capability and identify how this will be achieved.