Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate wildlife emergency
- Investigate nature of emergency from eyewitness reports or own inspection
- Make assessment of key factors that may impact on an appropriate response, including public and personal health and safety, animal care, biosecurity and environmental factors
- Notify authorities of incident according to enterprise procedures
- Implement interim care of animals pending instructions from authorities
- Delegate appropriate staff to provide interim care for animals
- Ensure personnel assisting in interim care are equipped and briefed
- Implement care instructions provided by authorities or veterinarians
- Collect information to determine further action
- Interview informants to obtain details of the situation
- Implement response to emergency
- Establish communications necessary to manage situation
- Transport resources and personnel to site
- Establish site procedures and implement emergency plans according to legislative requirements and enterprise procedures
- Move live fauna
- Remove dead fauna from site and dispose of biological matter in accordance with enterprise procedures and health and safety requirements
- Clean site in accordance with enterprise procedures to maintain public and environmental health and safety
- Implement measures that minimise risk to significant places, area, habitats, species and communities
- Coordinate response
- Inform general public and media of the nature of the incident and agency decisions
- Brief volunteers and staff on workplace health and safety hazards, preventive measures and reporting requirements
- Coordinate and deploy volunteers according to their skills and available personal protective equipment
- Establish physical barriers to keep public away from animals to minimise their distress and to protect the public
- Manage media until authorities provide instructions
- Use media according to enterprise procedures
- Care for affected animals
- Assign teams to animals according to incident assessment, care instructions and skills within teams
- Apply animal first aid
- Perform role in wildlife operations team according to the command structure and procedures of the management plan
- Care for animals using a range of skills and according to veterinary instructions and enterprise procedures
- Determine management options
- Seek veterinary advice where appropriate
- Collect biological and incident data on animals
- Evaluate management options according to advice, condition of animal and risk assessment
- Band or tag released animals where required for scientific purposes
- Source equipment and staff for returning animal to wild or temporary captive management
- Remove carcass
- Complete debrief and report