TRAINING
Animal Inspector Course
Theory/Online 80%
Practical 20%
Duration 3 months (The duration of the course is dependent on how much time you have available and how quickly you can work through the course, submit assignments and tests and follow instructions. The code of Conduct must be adhered too.)
Location To be arranged by the Student at a workplace or any venue of their choice3
About the course
The Animal Protection Act 71 of 1962 along with several other Acts / legislation /soft laws sets out the legal framework and guidelines relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals and people in South Africa and worldwide. As a qualified and authorised Animal Inspector, your role will be to ensure that individuals, businesses and other organisations who work with animals, are adhering to the legislation and that you take the necessary steps within the legal guidelines to enforce the relevant acts and guidelines but also to educate at all times.
The Unique Welfare Animal Inspector Course will give practical steps of what the role of an Animal Inspector entails daily, but also how to use and navigate various aspects of legislation to assist you to the best of your ability to help prevent and report cruelty and when necessary, how to prosecute successfully.
The course will also help you understand how Animal Welfare organisations function in South Africa and what the various roles, responsibilities and challenges are. The Unique Welfare Inspector course will equip you to provide education where needed and teach you how to best understand and communicate with the public, organisations and relevant authorities for the welfare needs of the vulnerable (Animals, Children, Women and the Environment).
Key Points
- Animal Welfare legislation (how to interpret, understand and apply various legislations/guidelines)
- Complaints (How to handle complaints from start to finish, collect information and how to determine urgency, issue warnings and seizure of animals)
- Domestic Animal Welfare: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Equine Welfare: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Farm Animals: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Working Animals: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Ethics – Animal Welfare (including science, research and technology).
- Procedures to follow when working with public and other welfare organisations.
- Inspectorate Roles & Responsibilities towards animals and other welfare organisations.
- Short term & emergency care for sick, injured or abandoned animals.
- Basic housing, nutrition and transportation of all animals.
- How to deal with power-breeds.
- The importance of excellent communication skills.
- Nature conservation & Wildlife, Exotic animals.
- Understanding Animal behaviour as well as human behaviour (communication methods).
- How to educate communities, schools and other.
- Unique Welfare (UW) Company Rules & Standard Operating Procedures & Code of Conduct.
- The link between Animal abuse and the abuse of women & children in the same house.
What you will need
- A laptop
- Data
- email address
- Copy of ID or Passport
- Police clearance
- Intro video explaining why you want to do the course
- Portrait photo
- Good time management skills
How to get started
Stage 1
Send us and email info@beunique.co.za or what’s app +27 83 780 0029 and provide us with the following detail:
Once we have received your application, you will be required to complete a questionnaire and attend a zoom interview where you are expected to answer questions honestly and to disclose any/all relevant information required for the position that you want to learn for.
Stage 2
If you are approved by our office, you will be required to make an immediate non-refundable deposit to secure your space. You will also be required to complete a payment agreement and sign our code of conduct and non-disclosure documents. All relevant information will be required from you for example id, proof of address, organisation that you work for (if any), police clearance.
Stage 3
Once you have completed stage 2 you will be given log in detail (in due time for the course) in order to prepare for your start date. Once your training is completed you may receive a completion certificate if you have passed your training successfully.
NB: It is important to understand that the completion of the course does not automatically provide you with a certificate or approval to become an authorised Animal Inspector is based on an overall evaluation process throughout your training that consists of various elements but are not limited to test and assignment results, communication skills and conduct.
Stage 4
If you are approved for the Animal Inspector authorisation process, you will be provided with an SLA agreement that forms part of the accountability and support role that our organisation takes to ensure that you are applying what you’ve learned and that you continue to learn responsibly and lawfully.
NB: If you are not authorised to become an Animal Inspector by our office it does not qualify you for a refund. Nor does it qualify you for a certificate. Your training fees are relevant to your study material only. It does not guarantee that you will pass mentally, physically and/or socially to become an authorised Animal Inspector. If you fail or abscond and/or reject our processes before, during or after the training, you are still liable for full payment. No refunds.
Field Officer Course
Theory/Online 80%
Practical 20%
Duration is 6 weeks (The duration of the course is dependent on how much time you have available and how quickly you can work through the course, submit assignments and tests and follow instructions. The code of Conduct must be adhered too.)
Location To be arranged by the Student at a workplace or any venue of their choice3
About the course
A Field Officer takes the role of a support agent for an Animal Inspector and/or can duplicate several duties of an Animal Inspector. The key difference is that a Field Officer will not be able to obtain magisterial authorisation according to legislation. However the field officer will have the skills and knowledge to enforce the law and educate other regarding what the law requires of each individual and what the rights of animals are. The Field Officer will require the assistance of an authorised Inspector in the case that a warrant needs to be obtained.
This course will teach the student what his/her duties are and how to enforce the law responsibly. Educating the public is a very big part of a Field Officers role and duties. The Field Officer will learn the basics around The Animals Protection Act 71 of 1962 along with several other Acts / legislation /soft laws sets out the legal framework and guidelines relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals and people in South Africa and worldwide.
The Unique Welfare Field Officer Course will give practical steps of what the role of a Field Officer will be daily. The course will point out the various roles, responsibilities and challenges in the field.
A Field Officer will be equipped to provide education through good and effective communication skills and will learn about ethical animal welfare that that is impacted by, animal welfare organisations, corporates, communities, media and the public.
Key Points
- Animal Welfare legislation (how to interpret, understand and apply various legislations/guidelines according to his/her authority)
- Complaints (How to handle complaints from start to finish, collect information and how to determine urgency, issue warnings and seizure of animals)
- Domestic Animal Welfare: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Farm Animals: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Working Animals: Understanding their role and how to improve their welfare.
- Ethics – Animal Welfare.
- Five Freedoms.
- Field Officer Roles & Responsibilities towards animals and others.
- Short term & emergency care for sick, injured or abandoned animals.
- Basic housing, nutrition and transportation of all animals.
- The importance of excellent communication skills.
- Unique Welfare (UW) Company Rules & Standard Operating Procedures & Code of Conduct.
What you will need
- A laptop
- Data
- email address
- Copy of ID or Passport
- Police clearance
- Intro video explaining why you want to do the course
- Portrait photo
- Good time management skills
How to get started
Stage 1
Send us and email info@beunique.co.za or what’s app +27 83 780 0029 and provide us with the following detail:
Once we have received your application, you will be required to complete a questionnaire and attend a zoom interview where you are expected to answer questions honestly and to disclose any/all relevant information required for the position that you want to learn for.
Stage 2
If you are approved by our office, you will be required to make an immediate non-refundable deposit to secure your space. You will also be required to complete a payment agreement and sign our code of conduct and non-disclosure documents. All relevant information will be required from you for example id, proof of address, organisation that you work for (if any), police clearance.
Stage 3
Once you have completed stage 2 you will be given log in detail (in due time for the course) in order to prepare for your start date. Once your training is completed you may receive a completion certificate if you have passed your training successfully.
NB: It is important to understand that the completion of the course does not automatically provide you with a certificate or approval to become a field officer. This decision is based on an overall evaluation throughout your training that consists of various elements but are not limited to test and assignment results, communication skills and conduct.
Stage 4
If you are approved for the Field Officer process, you will be provided with an SLA agreement that forms part of the accountability and support role that our organisation takes to ensure that you are applying what you’ve learned and that you continue to learn responsibly and lawfully.
NB: If you are not authorised to become a Field Officer it does not qualify you for a refund or a certificate. Your training fees are relevant to your study material only. It does not guarantee that you will pass mentally, physically and/or socially to become a Field Officer. If you fail or abscond and/or reject our processes before, during or after the training, you are still liable for full payment. No refunds.
Ethical Animal Welfare Course
Theory/Online 100%
Duration 1 Month (The duration of the course is dependent on how much time you have available and how quickly you can work through the course, submit assignments and tests and follow instructions. The code of Conduct must be adhered too.)
Location To be arranged by the Student at a workplace or any venue of their choice.
About the course
Ethical Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare is guided and regulated by law. However unfortunately there are many flaws in the legal system regarding ethical animal welfare which we address. Considering that some aspects related to animals are not illegal, does not make it ethical. Our legislation is extremely outdated and should have been changed already in many ways. Unfortunately this is a very lengthy and sometimes extremely difficult process due to the fact that people have different agendas. Mostly money drives unethical behavior.
This course is about pointing out what is unethical and why and how to ensure that you animal rights are enforced legally and ethically by all.
Key Points
- Animal Welfare legislation (how to interpret, understand and apply various legislations/guidelines according to his/her authority).
- What your rights are as private citizen when it comes to protecting animals and your environment.
- Five freedoms.
- Ethics and breeding.
- Ethics and maiming.
- Ethics and sterilisations.
- Ethics in rescuing and rehoming (adoptions).
- Ethics in trapping.
- Ethics and Hoarding.
- Ethics and euthanasia.
- Ethics and farm animals.
- Ethics and micro chipping.
- The difference between preventing cruelty and enabling cruelty.
- Transparency in finances as a non-profit.
- Transparency as a shelter and non-profit.
- Short term & emergency care for sick, injured or abandoned animals.
- Basic housing, nutrition and transportation of all animals.
- The importance of excellent communication skills.
- Unique Welfare (UW) Company Rules & Standard Operating Procedures & Code of Conduct.
What you will need
- A laptop
- Data
- email address
- Copy of ID or Passport
- Intro video explaining why you want to take the course
- Portrait photo
- Good time management skills
How to get started
Stage 1
Send us and email info@beunique.co.za or what’s app +27 83 780 0029 and provide us with the following detail:
Once we have received your application, you will be required to complete a questionnaire and attend a zoom interview.
Stage 2
If you are approved by our office, you will be required to make an immediate non-refundable deposit to secure your space. You will also be required to complete a payment agreement and sign our code of conduct and non-disclosure documents. All relevant information will be required from you for example id, proof of address, organisation that you work for (if any), police clearance.
Stage 3
Once you have completed stage 2 you will be given log in detail (in due time for the course) in order to prepare for your start date. Once your training is completed you will receive a completion certificate if you completed the course in full within the required time frame.
NB: It is important to understand that the completion of the course does not automatically provide you with a certificate. To obtain the certificate your account must be paid up in full and you must have completed all aspects of training within the required time frames. Your % will reflect on the certificate.
If you fail or abscond and/or reject our processes before, during or after the training, you are still liable for full payment. No refunds.
Skills Development Course
Theory/Online OR Lecture in Person 100%
Practical 10%
Duration 1 hour
Location To be arranged by the company (online or at the coporate)
About the course
Each and every person and organisation plays a daily part in the condition of our environment. Our environment includes water, plants, animals and so much more. Some people and some companies play a bigger role in breaking the environment down then others. A lot of this is due to a lack of knowledge and/or understanding the implication on our future and how easy each one of us can make a positive difference with small changes. Our course is aimed at providing facts and evidence with positive solutions that will enable each individual and organisation to make a positive difference in the future. We have one chance, let’s look at what can be done and make it happen together!
Key Points
- How is our daily live influenced by the environment?
- What are the real environmental threats/risks?
- How do we turn these threats into opportunities?
- Who is responsible for change?
- What does the future hold for us without change and with change?
- Understanding and implementing ethical environmental steps.
- How to set an example and make a positive difference in the lives of your loved once and your future.
What you will need if the course is required online for the staff
- A laptop
- Data
- email address
- Name and Surname
- Cell number
- Good time management skills
What we will need if we train at your company/office
- Lecture room/hall
- Electricity
- Wifi
- Big screen + Sound
- Tables and chairs for employees
How to get started
To book a free training session, please email us on wilmarie@beunique.co.za or contact +27 83 7800029. (Donations are welcome to help cover our costs and to enable us to continue this work and make positive difference).
Stage 1
Set up an appointment (zoom) to establish any specific objectives and discuss options available.
Stage 2
Set up a date/venue and time
Final stage
Host training session and provide certification for completion of the course.