Vietnam: Skills required for graduates from intermediate-level firefighting and rescue

Vietnam: Skills required for graduates from intermediate-level firefighting and rescue (Illustrative Image)

Under Circular 56/2018/TT-BLDTBXH, graduates from intermediate-level firefighting and rescue in Vietnam are required to have the following skills:

- Collect, analyze, and process information during basic firefighting investigation, create management records, monitor firefighting activities, and inspect fire safety;

- Implement fire extinguishing and rescue plans, organize and conduct fire drill plans and rescue drill plans according to procedures;

- Evaluate characteristics related to fire extinguishing tactics and the traits of actual fires occurring in residential houses and civil structures;

- Conduct firefighting activities when a fire occurs in facilities involving natural resources, economic, cultural, social establishments, residential houses, and civil structures in reality; assess characteristics related to firefighting tactics and the traits of fires occurring under special conditions; select firefighting activities to be performed under special conditions within a team’s scope;

- Use firefighting vehicles and equipment, apply firefighting techniques and tactics, coordinate the activities of different teams;

- Have presentation skills on professional manners and firefighting and rescue operations before any audience; possess good communication skills, including verbal, written, email, and other media communication;

- Identify equipment and tools equipped on firefighting, fighting, and rescue vehicles, inspect, and proficiently operate these vehicles;

- Utilize protective equipment, and inspection devices proficiently;

- Implement safety measures during the preparation of vehicles;

- Handle situations and incidents occurring during the operation of firefighting, fighting, and rescue vehicles, implement safety measures while operating the vehicles;

- Utilize basic information technology as per regulations; apply information technology in some professional work of the discipline and profession;

- Use basic foreign language skills, achieve level 1/6 in the Vietnamese Foreign Language Proficiency Framework; apply foreign languages in some professional work of the discipline and profession.

Details are available at Circular 56/2018/TT-BLDTBXH effective on February 10, 2019.

Ty Na

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