Public Safety Institute has a range of e-learning courses, including:
This 2 hour online course is aimed at those who may recreate around rivers such as swimmers, anglers and hikers. A digital certificate is issued upon completion of the course and quiz. This course is not suitable for those working around floodwater or emergency services.
Learning objectives: This course covers river features, hazard identification, river crossing planning and decision making, environmental care considerations, wader safety, swiftwater swimming, shallow water crossing, use of throw-bags, and medical considerations. This online course is also aligned to exceed the theoretical elements of NZQA unit standard 427 demonstrate crossing rivers.
This four hour online course is aimed at those who need to work around flood waters during emergencies such as utility workers, drainage contractors, storm water engineers, hydrologists, and others that have a key function to support local emergency management arrangements. For the general public, the advice is simply – stay out of flood water and follow the directions of authorities. This course may have content which may be upsetting for viewers and is not suitable for children.
The course may be used as an awareness level course for those that may have an oversight role but not working in the field during flooding or be used as a pre-course (blended) learning activity for the practical 4-6 hour Public Safety Institute Flood Safety Worker course, the later being considered by minimum training requirement for anyone working in or around flood water. This online course is also aligned to exceed the theoretical elements of NZQA Unit Standard 22298.
Learning objectives
This online course covers the following: River and flood hydrology, environmental care and biosecurity considerations, swiftwater and flood hazard management, laws affecting rescue and safe work, signals and communications, swiftwater swimming, shallow water crossing, use of throw-bags, vehicle drowning prevention and escape, culvert and storm drain rescue, medical considerations, flood worker personal protective equipment, weather and river level monitoring, safe work practices, training levels and more.
This 8 hour online course is aimed at those wanting to complete the theory requirements of the Swiftwater Responder course. The course is useful to emergency service workers who may be responded to a flood or swiftwater rescue incident. The course is also useful for current swiftwater responders wishing to refresh their theoretical knowledge.
This course may have content which may be upsetting for viewers and is not suitable for children. This online course is also aligned to meet theoretical elements of NZQA Unit Standard 22298 and PUASAR001 Perform land-based swiftwater rescue and recovery.
Learning objectives
This online course covers the following: River and flood hydrology, environmental care and biosecurity considerations, swiftwater and flood hazard management, laws affecting rescue and safe work (NZ), signals and communications, swiftwater swimming, shallow water crossing, use of throw-bags, vehicle drowning prevention and escape, culvert and storm drain rescue, medical considerations (including cold water immersion), swiftwater rescuer personal protective equipment, swiftwater rescue rules, weather and river level monitoring, managing night operations, incident command tactics, knots, anchors, inflatable fire hose, basic rope and swiftwater equipment, decontamination, shore based rescue techniques including vehicle stabilization and cinches, inflatable fire hose rescues, management of animals in disaster, river search strategies and more.
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Pre-requisite: PSI Swiftwater Responder (online).
This 6 hour online course is aimed at those who have completed the PSI Introduction to Swiftwater Responder (online) course and wanting to complete the theory requirements of the Introduction to Swiftwater Technician course. The course is also useful for current swiftwater rescue technicians wishing to refresh their theoretical knowledge.
Learning objectives
This online course covers the following: mechanical advantage/hauling systems, helicopter safety, contact rescues, live bait rescue, V lower rescue, combat swim, towed swim, victim behaviour, rescues from low head dams and aqueducts, radio communications, parbuckling, ice rescue basics, vehicle behaviour in static and dynamic water, strainer negotiation, capture devices, boat on highline, wading rescue from vehicles, boat un-pinning/un-wrapping, spinal rolls, zip lines/tensioned diagonals, cargo net on zip line, curtain capture on zip line and more.
Pre-requisite: nil, however it is recommended that public safety workers have completed the Introduction to Swiftwater Responder (online) prior.
This 45-60 minute online course is aimed at emergency responders who may arrive first on-scene to a swiftwater or flood rescue incident and required to undertake an assessment to determine the risk of the swiftwater or flood rescue incident using the ECHO tool.
Pre-requisite: Introduction to Swiftwater Technician (online) and ECHO Risk Assessment.
This 5 hour online course is aimed at swiftwater rescue technicians wishing to learn more about contemporary approaches to conducting rescues from vehicles in swiftwater and flood environments. It meets the theoretical requirements for SRTV®, the world’s most comprehensive programme on rescues from vehicles in water developed by Dr Steve Glassey. Public Safety Institute is the exclusive provider of SRTV® for New Zealand. Upon completion of this course, students can undertake practical training with one of our accredited providers to be certified as SRTV® and recieve the official patch.
Learning Objectives:
This online course covers the following: vehicle fatality statistics, vehicle created hydrology, specialist equipment and procedures, vehicle behaviour in water, rescue command tactics, operations (responder) level rescue methods, technician level rescue methods, vehicle escape, emerging technologies including AWOS and Electric Vehicles (EVs), shore based vehicle stabilization, myth busting of internet advice, preventative search and rescue, dispatcher protocols, animal rescue, vehicle anatomy, glass types and management, vehicle stability, bottom assessment, anchor points, water proof extrication devices, wading rescue protocols (responders).
This five hour online course provides contemporary insight to why taking an animal-inclusive disaster resilience approach has benefits to both human and animals. In a series of presentations, case studies and optional readings, presenter Steve Glassey gives an insight on why animals matter in disasters.
This one hour online webinar provides a short course on how to stay safe around dogs, aimed at emergency service workers entering properties with unfamiliar dogs. Former Animal Control Officer and SPCA Inspector Steve Glassey gives advice on how to interact with unfamiliar dogs to minimise the risk of dog attack. A certificate of completion is awarded those who complete the short course quiz. This course is available in face-face format through accredited trainers, contact us for further information.
This one hour online webinar provides a short course on how to use the Targeted Incident Planning System developed by Dr Steve Glassey and how to apply within an incident response as well as day-to-day planning. This course is available in face-face format through accredited trainers, contact us for further information. New for 2023.
For group enrolments of 20 or more students, we offer a bulk discount and single invoice service. Bulk importing of users is also available using our learn-deash-template (.csv).
We also combination packages for cohorts wanting to do both the online and practical requirements for course.
Please contact us for further details if interested.
All online courses come with a digital PSI certificate with verifiable unique QR code is issued upon completion of all lessons, topics and the quiz.
We welcome all qualified instructors and recognised training providers to allow their students to complete our courses as part of their course requirements.
