Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare the team for workplace emergencies
- Pre-incident planning sessions are conducted to familiarise team members with relevant workplace procedures and safe and effective actions to control workplace emergencies according to relevant legislative requirements
- Processes are developed and implemented to ensure the competence of team members is developed and maintained
- Discussions, practice drills and exercises are conducted in accordance with workplace emergency procedures
- Emergency equipment is confirmed to be in a serviceable and accessible condition in accordance with standard/operating procedures
- Coordinate the response to control workplace emergencies
- Initial response team is made aware of the workplace emergency
- Team's response to the emergency is coordinated according to workplace emergency procedures, risk assessment and available resources
- Situation and its likely development is constantly assessed, hazards are identified and appropriate precautions are applied and maintained to safeguard team members
- Appropriate actions to safely control the emergency are selected, and contingency plans are developed and implemented if needed
- Instructions to implement selected actions are conveyed to team members in a clear manner and confirmed with them
- Actions chosen for the team to implement are consistent with available resources and the priority order of safely protecting self, other people and property where safe to do so
- Team actions are monitored, recorded and adjusted if needed to ensure safe and appropriate action is maintained
- Communicate with and coordinate personnel
- Effective communication with team members is constantly maintained according to communication systems
- Activities are consistent with the workplace emergency procedures and team members' actions are coordinated
- Team members' actions are coordinated with the activities of other initial response teams
- On arrival incident controller is briefed and control is transferred to the appropriate emergency services/specialist response team
- Liaison is established with the responding emergency services or specialist response team, and all relevant information and support is provided to them
- Lead team's recovery from workplace emergencies
- Team actions are coordinated to prevent a re-occurrence of the emergency and to enable recovery activities to be commenced safely
- Appropriate assistance is coordinated, within the scope of the workplace emergency procedures
- Equipment is checked, serviced and stored, replaced or disposed of, to ensure its readiness for use
- Any injuries, accidents or near misses involving the team are reported and critical incident support services for the team are requested in accordance with relevant regulatory requirements
- A debriefing of the team is conducted and an incident report is prepared and submitted according to workplace procedures