Master CPPSEC3115 in Melbourne: Excel in Revolver Handling at NSTA Central

CPPSEC3115 Carry, operate and maintain revolvers for security purposes is a crucial unit of competency for individuals working in security roles, particularly in Melbourne. Offered by NSTA Central, this course equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge to safely and legally carry, operate, and maintain revolvers. CPPSEC3115 in Melbourne Learners will review workplace policies, comply with legal requirements, and demonstrate proficiency in revolver handling, loading, unloading, and cleaning procedures. Through practical training and assessment, students will develop competence in drawing, using, and recovering revolvers, ensuring compliance with range rules and safety protocols. This unit is essential for those seeking to meet licensing requirements and excel in security operations

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CPPSEC3115 Carry, operate and maintain revolvers for security purposes Unit of competency

Application:

This unit specifies the skills and knowledge required to safely and legally carry, operate and maintain revolvers for security purposes.

It includes:

• Reviewing and complying with range rules and procedures, workplace policies and legal rights and responsibilities including firearms and weapons Acts and workplace health and safety (WHS)
• Selecting and checking the revolver, ammunition, duty gear and required personal protective equipment (PPE), and following manufacturers’ specifications to ensure correct and safe operation
• Operating a revolver demonstrating correct techniques for loading and unloading, draw and recovery, retention, shooting and discharging multiple shots at the same target and multiple targets to the required standard of accuracy
• Discharging a revolver at an approved range following local range rules and instructions from range personnel
• Cleaning and maintaining revolvers following point, remove, observe, verify and examine (PROVE) safety procedures.

It applies to people working independently or under limited supervision as members of a security team.

This unit may form part of the licensing requirements for people engaged in security operations in those states and territories where these are regulated activities.

Note: This unit requires appropriate permits to be obtained to conduct firearms training in some states and territories.

This unit does not result in a firearms licence or permit. Refer to the regulatory requirements of individual states and territories.

Pre-requisite Unit: Nil

Unit Sector: Security operations

Elements and Performance Criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.	Performance criteria describe what needs to be done to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Prepare to carry and operate revolver.	1.1 Review workplace policies and procedures including WHS to ensure compliance with legal rights and responsibilities when carrying and operating revolvers for security purposes.1.2 Select revolver and correct ammunition and duty gear for revolver type, and use required personal protective equipment (PPE) and clothing.1.3 Check that equipment is operational following manufacturers’ instructions and rectify or report faults or malfunctions.
2. Draw, use and recover revolver.	2.1 Check and load ammunition following manufacturers’ instructions and safely recover revolver.2.2 Draw revolver safely to ready position.2.3 Operate revolver demonstrating compliance with fundamentals of shooting principles.2.4 Control revolver to demonstrate correct retention techniques.2.5 Use available cover and concealment, and demonstrate correct techniques for low light shooting.2.6 Discharge multiple shots at the same target and multiple targets to meet the required standard of accuracy.2.7 Perform immediate and remedial actions in the event of revolver malfunction.2.8 Safely unload and recover revolver.
3. Discharge revolver at approved range.	3.1 Interpret and comply with local range rules at approved shooting range.3.2 Select and fit PPE including hearing and eye protection, and baseball cap to comply with range rules.3.3 Handle revolver according to fundamentals of shooting principles.3.4 Follow commands from range personnel or firearms instructors.3.5 Select correct ammunition for revolver and load as instructed by range personnel or firearms instructor.3.6 Discharge revolver to meet approved course of fire and achieve required standards.3.7 Complete range register and incident report as required.
4. Clean and maintain revolver.	4.1 Apply PROVE procedures to physically check revolver, swing out cylinder and confirm that the chamber is empty prior to cleaning.4.2 Select and use correct tools and cleaning kit for revolver following manufacturers’ instructions.4.3 Access a suitable venue to clean revolver following WHS procedures.4.4 Disassemble and clean revolver following manufacturers’ instructions.4.5 Reassemble revolver and inspect to confirm safety and correct operation.

Foundation Skills:

This section describes the language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills essential to performance in this unit but not explicit in the performance criteria:

• Writing skills to complete range registers and incident reports
• Reading skills to interpret:
  • Standard operating procedures and policies that clarify legal rights and responsibilities
  • Manufacturers’ instructions and technical information when checking, operating and cleaning revolvers
  • Signs that detail range rules that may be in written and diagrammatic formats
• Speaking and listening skills to:
  • Understand spoken commands from range personnel and firearms instructors
  • Use questions to clarify instructions
• Numeracy skills to apply basic mathematical techniques to:
  • Select and use correct amount of ammunition
  • Discharge correct number of shots
• Problem Solving skills to:
  • Recognise faults and malfunctions in revolvers and equipment
  • Correctly disassemble and reassemble revolver
  • Teamwork skills to adjust personal communication styles in response to the opinions, values and needs of others.

Assessment requirements

Performance Evidence

To demonstrate competency in this unit, a person must carry, operate and maintain revolvers for security purposes in:

• One dry fire environment
• One live fire shooting range.

On each occasion, the person must:

• Draw and recover revolver safely keeping fingers off the trigger until target is acquired and ensuring the muzzle does not cross body parts
• Demonstrate each of the following loading and unloading techniques:
  • Administrative loading
  • Tactical loading using speed strips and speed loaders
  • Using pouches to store speed strips and speed loaders
• Demonstrate compliance with fundamentals of shooting principles while handling a revolver:
  • Grip
  • Stance
  • Trigger control
  • Sight alignment and picture
  • Breathing
  • Follow through.

In doing this, the person must meet the performance criteria for this unit.

Knowledge Evidence

To be competent in this unit, a person must demonstrate knowledge of:

• Standard operating procedures and workplace policies that ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements when carrying, operating and maintaining revolvers for security purposes:
  • Carriage and use of firearms and weapons
  • Duty of care
  • Licensing requirements and limits of own authority
  • Range rules at approved shooting range
  • Selection and use of ammunition
  • Selection and use of duty gear
  • Use of force
  • Workplace health and safety (WHS)
• Approved communication terminology, call signs and radio channels used in the security industry
• Approved course of fire
• Different procedures for operating various revolver types and models
• Duty gear required for carrying and using revolvers
• Effective range of law-enforcement ammunition
• Firearms retention techniques
• Fundamentals of shooting including grip, stance, trigger control, sight alignment and picture, breathing and follow through
• Legal consequences of pointing and firing a revolver outside of an approved range
• Loading and unloading techniques including administrative loading, tactical loading using speed strips and speed loaders, and using pouches to store speed strips and speed loaders
• Low light shooting techniques
• Methods for discharging multiple shots at same target and multiple targets
• Nomenclature of modern law-enforcement ammunition
• Nomenclature of modern law-enforcement revolvers
• Operating sequence and principles of revolvers
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) required when carrying and using revolvers and using an approved range
• Procedures for attending an approved shooting range
• Procedures for responding to multiple threats
• Reasons finger must remain off trigger until target is sighted
• Reasons muzzle must not cross body parts when drawing and recovering revolvers from or to holsters
• Process of dynamic risk assessment and how it is applied
• Rules of approved shooting range
• Situations where it is appropriate to draw or use a revolver to manage a perceived threat according to the use of force model
• Techniques for proving a revolver: point in a safe direction, remove ammunition, observe chamber, verify feeding path, and examine bore for obstructions
• Techniques for safely drawing and recovering a revolver and moving to ready position
• The phonetic alphabet and how it is used
• Types of security risk situations that may be encountered during armed assignments and appropriate responses

Assessment Conditions

Assessors must satisfy the requirements for assessors contained in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs). All individuals engaged by a licensed RTO for security licensing purposes must hold both a security trainer’s licence (where such a licence exists within the relevant jurisdiction) and a security operative licence that authorises the security activities about which the individual is training/assessing. Regulators may impose other assessor conditions to meet jurisdictional assessment requirements.

Assessment of performance must be undertaken in an operational workplace environment or environment that reflects workplace conditions. Tasks are to be performed to the level of proficiency and within the time limits that would be expected in a workplace.

The assessment of performance evidence must be done by direct observation of the learner by an assessor, either by an assessor observing the learner physically or by an assessor observing the learner via audio and visual media.

Assessment of performance evidence is only valid where the learner has been assessed performing the role of a security officer.

Assessment of performance must comply with jurisdictional regulatory requirements for conducting firearms training and assessment.

Assessors are responsible for ensuring that the person demonstrating competency has access to:

• Specifications of assessment tasks to safely and legally carry, operate and maintain revolvers for security purposes
• Appropriate documents, materials, and equipment currently used in industry
• Revolver, ammunition, duty gear and PPE to meet work instructions
• Standard operating procedures and workplace policies related to the security work role and which specify requirements for complying with industry legislation and regulations.

Ready to enhance your security skills? Join us at NSTA Central in Melbourne for the CPPSEC3115 course and master the safe and effective operation of revolvers for security purposes. Whether you’re seeking professional development or compliance with licensing requirements, our expert training will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need. Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your career in the security industry. Enroll now and take the first step towards mastery.

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