Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify hazards and implement general readiness actions
- Identify all emergencies and hazards to workplace products, personnel and assets, natural resources and environment
- Seek input of managers and stakeholders in identifying potential emergencies and developing a risk register
- Identify and liaise with appropriate authorities and emergency agencies to identify potential risks
- Provide sufficient time for on-facility and external monitoring and warning systems to allow risk management contingency plan or loss-minimisation strategy to be implemented or accessed
- Determine and arrange resources to implement contingency plan
- Ensure equipment and resources needed to minimise, remove or deal with threats are operational
- Develop contingency plans and emergency procedures
- Develop contingency plans that address risks in consultation with experts
- Develop emergency procedures to address a range of possible emergency situations
- Prioritise and document actions to be taken during incidents and emergencies, ensuring all legal requirements and checks are met
- Carry out practical drills to test contingency plans and emergency procedures
- Evaluate costs and benefits of contingency plans or emergency procedures and refine as required
- Implement risk management contingency plans and emergency procedures
- Identify specific risks and severity of incidents and select appropriate risk management contingency plans
- Mobilise staff and resources and confirm areas of responsibility
- Carry out emergency procedures and maintain liaison with emergency agencies
- Maintain loss minimisation until risk has passed
- Carry out emergency debrief according to workplace procedures
- Identify and support personnel and resources required for post-incident activities
- Improve the contingency plans
- Monitor responses to threats and emergencies in consultation with appropriate authorities and emergency agencies
- Analyse overall performance of contingency plan for currency and functionality to ensure business stability and profitability
- Document and report results of analysis to management and key personnel
- Assess information on alternative risk management strategies to determine relevance and possible application in existing or potential situations
- Test suitability and adaptability of alternative strategies to individual circumstances
- Assess innovation benefits and costs and make decisions on their adoption
- Brief management on outcomes and recommendations for improvements