Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for an aerodrome emergency
- Familiarity with aerodrome emergency response procedures and role of responding agencies is established
- Aerodrome emergency equipment is checked and tested in accordance with workplace procedures
- Emergency exercises and debriefing sessions are participated in as required
- Hazards are identified, risks are assessed and hazard management is implemented
- Responding agencies are escorted on familiarisation tours of airside facilities as required
- Respond to an aerodrome emergency
- Established emergency response procedures are followed
- Forward command post (FCP) and other forward control areas are appropriately established
- Wreckage is guarded and evidence is preserved
- Command of initial emergency response is appropriately handed over to responding agencies
- Responding agencies are assisted as required
- Running log is maintained throughout an emergency
- Media enquiries are appropriately handled
- Take appropriate action to reinstate aerodrome operations