Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for emergency situations
- Report emergencies and potential emergencies
- Respond to emergency warnings and advice
- Emergency warnings and advice are responded to according to workplace emergency procedures
- Instructions from emergency control response personnel are complied with during an emergency
- Sources of additional information are identified and information is sought from relevant people if the situation is not clear
- Evacuate from the work area
- Need to evacuate from the work area is determined according to the level of immediate danger or instruction issued under the workplace emergency procedures
- Work area is prepared for evacuation according to workplace emergency procedures and the nature of the emergency
- Area of danger is evacuated according to workplace emergency procedures
- Where it is safe to do so, assistance is provided to people who may require assistance
- Evacuation procedures and instructions from emergency control organisation or emergency response personnel are followed
- Alternative pathways or methods of evacuation are identified, assessed and chosen according to workplace emergency procedures if usual means of evacuation are blocked or endangered
- Communication systems are used according to workplace procedures