Elements and Performance Criteria
- Follow WHS procedures and prepare for emergency response.
- Read WHS and emergency procedures and workplace policies and apply to work tasks to ensure compliance with legal rights and responsibilities.
- Clarify emergency procedures, personal authority and response limitations with relevant persons.
- Identify and locate emergency resources and instructions within the workplace.
- Select and use communications and personal protective equipment (PPE) to follow safe work practices.
- Identify, assess and control security hazards and risks.
- Identify hazards in the work area and assess security risks.
- Report hazards and risks immediately to relevant persons following workplace procedures.
- Use the hierarchy of control to select and apply appropriate methods to control the hazard or minimise risk as far as possible within limits of own authority.
- Identify and respond to emergency situation.
- Identify emergency situation and promptly notify emergency personnel and relevant persons.
- Follow emergency response procedures and comply with instructions to maintain security within limits of own competence and authority.
- Seek information from relevant persons to maintain situational awareness.
- Identify need to evacuate from the work area according to nature of emergency and immediate danger level.
- Select safe evacuation pathway and methods following emergency procedures and instructions and modify evacuation pathway as required.
- Communicate regularly with relevant persons and others in the work area to give and receive instructions.
- Evacuate work area following emergency procedures.
- Complete documentation and assist review of emergency response.