Wildlife Safety Technician

The Wildlife Safety Technician Program is a 29-training-day intensive program designed to teach candidates to function as wildlife safety technicians and lead and employ teams of wildlife monitors in extremely remote locations. Graduates are trained to develop wildlife-related Task Hazard Analysis (THA), Safe Work Practices (SWPs) and other relevant policies and procedures. Safety technicians are also responsible for selecting, training, and employing wildlife monitors, as well as conducting oversight of field operations. Graduates of this program are able to fulfill the role of incident commander in a response team should an emergency occur.

Throughout the course, candidates must demonstrate a working knowledge of laws and legislation as it relates to interacting with wildlife in the workplace; firearms and deterrent use and safety; vehicle, watercraft, and aircraft operations and safety; leadership, training, and supervisory theory and techniques; operations management; and policy and procedural development.

Successful candidates are expected to be able to advise employer organizations on how to mitigate wildlife impacts on a work site, plan and implement wildlife-related operations in support of client tasks, and lead teams of qualified monitors in the field.