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 routein liaison with other workers in the vicinity and 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 and notify appropriate personnel as per site requirements
- 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 conditionsand respond to adverse conditions
- Evaluate if it is an irrespirable atmosphere and locate and access self rescuer/breathing apparatus caches and utilise according to manufacturer’s and 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