Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess and withdraw from hazardous situation
- Access, interpret and apply compliance documentation relevant to escaping from hazardous situation unaided
- Interpret alarms and indicators to determine the type, cause and severity of the hazard
- Assess threat/danger and decide on the safest escape option and escape route in liaison with other workers in the vicinity. Notify appropriate personnel as per site requirements
- If safe, withdraw from hazardous situation by proceeding to selected escape route
- Don self-contained self rescuer and/or other recommended personal protective equipment according to manufacturer's instructions and/or site requirements
- Evaluate the need to barricade-in and wait for external aided rescue
- Evacuate to fresh air
- Evacuate from hazardous situation by the established or alternative escape route. Notify appropriate personnel as per site requirements, if possible
- Follow escape route markers and guidance system to navigate escape route at optimum rate of travel
- Continuously monitor and observe the mine atmosphere and mine environmental conditions and respond to adverse conditions
- If irrespirable atmosphere continues, locate and access self rescuer/breathing apparatus caches and utilise according to site requirements
- Evaluate the need for, and locate and retreat to a place of safety or build barricade/s for protection from adverse conditions
- Monitor air/oxygen usage and adjust rate of travel where necessary, and ensure efficient changeover of self rescuer/breathing apparatus within determined operational timeframes
- Report and debrief