This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to select, don, test and safely operate appropriate personal protective clothing and equipment at an incident involving dangerous goods and hazardous chemicals as well as safely combatting incidents involving hazardous materials.A hazardous material incident is a generic term used to refer to any incident involving any hazardous materials based on physio-chemical, chemical, biological or radiological properties that pose an unreasonable risk to life, property or the environment. This includes dangerous goods, goods too dangerous to be transported and hazardous chemicals.Incident Controllers will determine the appropriate level of personal protection clothing and equipment required at a hazardous materials incident, based on information collected at the site and advice received from electronic databases and specialist sources. The unit applies to personnel who through their work are required to don, test and operate designated personal protective clothing and equipment at a hazardous materials incident.The fire sector is those sections of government departments, statutory authorities or organisations that have responsibility under jurisdictional arrangements for the delivery of firefighting and fire management services.No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.