Elements and Performance Criteria
- Monitor and assess situational risks in workplaces
- Situational safety is monitored and assessed and well informed judgements are made in accordance with agreed operational practices and the surrounding environment
- Potential risks to own safety, the safety of fellow officers and members of the public are quickly and correctly identified assessed and monitored
- Maintain a safe working environment
- Operational safety responses/procedures are identified and/or planned and implemented within organisation's procedures and policies
- Equipment, materials and environment are assessed for hazards and protective action is planned to ensure the health and safety of people
- Safety issues are evaluated and advised to the relevant officers and alternate responses are devised
- Appropriate protective clothing and equipment are correctly identified, worn and utilised where and when required
- Incidents are identified and observations are recorded and reported accurately, promptly and in the required format to relevant personnel
- Employ defensive tactics
- Situations are assessed correctly and informed judgements made as appropriate for the use of defensive tactics and/or physical restraint techniques
- Defensive tactics and/or restraining techniques are applied in accordance with jurisdictional law, organisational policy and procedures and subject to surrounding conditions
- Documentation regarding the 'use of force' is completed and submitted in accordance with organisational requirements
- Defensive tactics and restraining skills are applied at the appropriate situations and to organisational standard