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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan and prepare for escaping from hazardous situations unaided
   • Access, interpret and apply emergency response and rescue documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
   • Obtain, read, interpret, clarify and confirm work requirements
   • Identify and address potential risks, hazards and environmental issues and implement control measures
   • Select and wear personal protective equipment appropriate for work activities
   • Interpret alarms and indicators to determine the type, cause and severity of the hazardous situation
   • Assess hazard/danger and determine the safest escape option and/or route in consultation with other workers
   • Identify, establish and maintain communication systems with other personnel during the emergency
2. Assess and withdraw from hazardous situation
   • Identify and assess the hazardous situation
   • Evaluate the need to barricade-in and wait for external aided rescue
   • Withdraw, if safe, via selected escape route
   • Access and use self-contained self-rescuer and/or other personal protective equipment
3. Evacuate to fresh air
   • Evacuate from hazardous situation via the established or alternative escape route and notify appropriate personnel
   • Follow escape route markers and guidance system to navigate escape route
   • Continuously monitor and observe the mine atmosphere and environmental conditions and respond to adverse conditions
   • Determine if the atmosphere is irrespirable and locate, access and use self-rescuer/breathing apparatus caches
   • Evaluate the need for, locate and retreat to, a place of safety
   • Build barricade/s for protection
   • Monitor air/oxygen usage, adjust rate of travel where necessary and ensure efficient changeover of self-rescuer/breathing apparatus
4. Participate in post-incident debrief
   • Provide details of escape to relevant personnel
   • Process written records or reports
   • Evaluate the need for voluntary counselling
5. Plan and prepare for escaping from hazardous situations unaided
   • Access, interpret and apply emergency response and rescue documentation and ensure the work activity is compliant
   • Obtain, read, interpret, clarify and confirm work requirements
   • Identify and address potential risks, hazards and environmental issues and implement control measures
   • Select and wear personal protective equipment appropriate for work activities
   • Interpret alarms and indicators to determine the type, cause and severity of the hazardous situation
   • Assess hazard/danger and determine the safest escape option and/or route in consultation with other workers
   • Identify, establish and maintain communication systems with other personnel during the emergency
6. Assess and withdraw from hazardous situation
   • Identify and assess the hazardous situation
   • Evaluate the need to barricade-in and wait for external aided rescue
   • Withdraw, if safe, via selected escape route
   • Access and use self-contained self-rescuer and/or other personal protective equipment
7. Evacuate to fresh air
   • Evacuate from hazardous situation via the established or alternative escape route and notify appropriate personnel
   • Follow escape route markers and guidance system to navigate escape route
   • Continuously monitor and observe the mine atmosphere and environmental conditions and respond to adverse conditions
   • Determine if the atmosphere is irrespirable and locate, access and use self-rescuer/breathing apparatus caches
   • Evaluate the need for, locate and retreat to, a place of safety
   • Build barricade/s for protection
   • Monitor air/oxygen usage, adjust rate of travel where necessary and ensure efficient changeover of self-rescuer/breathing apparatus
8. Participate in post-incident debrief
   • Provide details of escape to relevant personnel
   • Process written records or reports
   • Evaluate the need for voluntary counselling

Performance Evidence

Evidence is required to be collected that demonstrates a candidate’s competency in this unit. Evidence must be relevant to the roles within this sector’s work operations and satisfy all of the requirements of the performance criteria of this unit and include evidence that the candidate:

locates and applies relevant documentation, policies and procedures

implements the requirements, procedures and techniques for the safe, effective and efficient completion of escaping from hazardous situations unaided including:

identifying alternative escape routes

interpreting and responding to adverse environmental conditions

identify and interpret alarms and indicators to determine type, cause and severity of emergency

identifying and complying with hygiene standards

identifying, addressing and reporting on risks

works effectively with others to undertake and complete the escape from hazardous situations unaided that meets all the required outcomes including:

complying with written and verbal reporting requirements and procedures

communicating clearly and concisely with others to receive and clarify work instructions

communicating clearly and concisely with others to coordinate work activities

demonstrates completion of the escape from hazardous situations unaided that safely, effectively and efficiently meets all of the required outcomes on more than one (1) occasion including:

inspecting, putting on and using self-rescuer and/or breathing apparatus

reading mine plans and navigating in mine

identifying and reporting on mine conditions

accessing, interpreting and applying data from monitoring systems and equipment

applying risk management processes and techniques

interpreting and responding to adverse environmental conditions

identifying alternative escape routes

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate knowledge in escaping from hazardous situations unaided through:

types and causes of hazards and incidents in underground mines

alarms and indicators of mine incidents

accessing and interpreting relevant geological and survey data

effects of hot and humid atmospheres

location and distribution of caches

trigger points to initiate emergency response to alarms

barricades and barricading methods

location and purpose of a place of safety

guidance systems and markers

site emergency plans

implications of lack of visibility

site communication systems

escape routes and alternative escape routes

types of adverse environmental conditions

basic ventilation systems

types and effects of mine gases

travel speeds

monitoring systems

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