Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for emergency situations
- Perform regular checks of the workplace to identify hazards and assess and control risks
- Take action to maximise safety and control health hazards and risks in the workplace
- Identify and evaluate options for action in case of emergency situations
- Interpret and carry out workplace emergency procedures
- Apply work health and safety (WHS) procedures and safe work practices to the selection of personal protective equipment (PPE) to suit the emergency situation
- Store and maintain safety equipment and aids for emergencies
- Report or document near misses and hazards
- Implement fire protection and control on-site and in the workshop
- Minimise fire hazards in the workplace as specified in hazardous fuelling procedures
- Identify appropriate fire extinguishers and firefighting equipment for use in fire situations, and notify authorities according to workplace procedures
- Follow evacuation procedures and assemble at nominated assembly points
- Carry out specific safety procedures for handling and use of industrial gases
- Evaluate the emergency
- Identify and assess emergency situations and potential emergency situations
- Seek advice from relevant people in evaluating the emergency
- Monitor and evaluate the possible development of the emergency and further potential hazards
- Prioritise emergency needs promptly and accurately, including needs for assistance
- Act in an emergency
- Implement the plan of action using techniques appropriate to the situation, available resources and abilities
- Establish and implement strategies for group control, including removal of personnel, clients, animals and others from danger
- Operate equipment safely and, where necessary, improvise equipment and techniques
- Monitor constantly the condition of all staff, animals and others
- Change the plan of action to accommodate changes insituational variables
- Acquire and document information to assist emergency services
- Notify emergency services according to emergency procedures
- Demonstrate casualty evacuation methods as relevant to the context
- Implement organisation procedures and policies in the event of a major injury or death
- Deal with first aid situations
- Minimise immediate risk to self and health and safety of casualty by isolating the hazard
- Make a basic assessment of casualty injuries and vital signs, and need for first aid assistance
- Reassure the casualty in a caring and calm manner and make casualty comfortable using available resources
- Seek first aid assistance from others according to emergency procedures
- Apply essential equine first aid techniques
- Recognise and reportsigns of common equine illnesses or diseases
- Recognise and reportindicators of abnormal system function and vital signs of equines
- Calm and restrain equine prior to first aid assessment using safe handling techniques
- Follow first aid policy and procedures with respect to obligations of owners, regulations and duty of care
- Apply principles of first aid procedures relating to injury or accident
- Follow and contribute to a policy and system of referral of injury treatment and emergency care