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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Assess a potential emergency
   • Identify emergency alarm
   • Clarify cause of the alarm
   • Prepare for response to emergency
   • Escalate to emergency response, as required
   • Report the critical situation, as required
   • Return to normal operations, as appropriate

Required Skills

Required skills

Required skills include operating the distributed control system DCS communicating effectively under stress reacting appropriately under stress analytical skills monitoring the situation and minimising risks to personnel plant and environment working safely in accordance with operational requirements and safe systems of work

Required knowledge

Required knowledge includes organisational procedures emergency response structures accessing and interpreting weather conditions alarms causes of alarms and false alarms indicators of developing and existing critical situations actions appropriate to control emergency situations reporting procedures emergency response communication systems personnel and procedures

Evidence Required

The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria required skills and knowledge range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit	Critical aspects for assessment and evidence are a potential emergency is assessed an emergency is responded to using the panel an emergency is monitored using the panel
Context of and specific resources for assessment	Assessment will require access to an accurately simulated environment in the absence of an onsite incident environment or a suitable method of gathering evidence of responding ability over a range of situations A bank of scenarioscase studieswhatifs will be required as will a bank of questions which will be used to probe the reasoning behind the observable actions
Guidance information for assessment	Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language competency and safety requirements of the site and consistent with workplace systems or procedures

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Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Context	This unit of competency includes declared situations or emergency conditions in the plant or process where it has escalated to an emergency.
Incident commander	Incident commander is the person who has the responsibility to take charge of the response to the incident. The control room operator, and all other roles, act under the direction of the designated incident commander in a declared emergency incident. While this role may be delegated to another, responsibility for the correct operation of the control room and its operators remains with the commander.
Procedures	Procedures may be written, verbal, computer-based or in some other form. They may include, but are not limited to: all work instructions standard operating procedures formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant good operating practice as may be defined by industry codes of practice Procedures would be expected to comply with any relevant government regulations.
Logs and reports	Logs and reports may include: paper or electronic-based logs and reports verbal/radio reports reporting items found which require action
Appropriate action	Appropriate action includes, but is not limited to: determining problems needing action accessing and applying relevant technical and plant data applying appropriate problem solving techniques to determine possible fault causes rectifying problem using appropriate solution within area of responsibility following through items initiated until final resolution has occurred reporting problems outside area of responsibility/ability to resolve to designated person
Health, safety and environment (HSE)	All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent HSE requirements, which may be imposed through state or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between Performance Criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.

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