Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan and prepare for aided rescue during incident
- Interpret alarms and indicators to determine type, cause, location, and severity of hazard or situation
- Access, interpret and apply aided rescue documentation
- Obtain, interpret, clarify and confirm work requirements and confirm compliance
- Identify hazards and environmental issues, assess the risks, and implement control measures
- Identify, establish and maintain communication systems with other personnel during emergency
- Locate, select and wear personal protective equipment required for work activities, including breathing apparatus caches
- Locate, obtain and test emergency equipment
- Assess incident scene and plan rescue strategy
- Confirm situation information and hazards involved in rescue operation
- Determine locations of endangered mine personnel
- Identify best route and method of travel to location of endangered mine personnel
- Identify and determine best location for a fresh air base
- Assess situation and select safest and most effective extrication method
- Refer to mine plan and identify escape route and alternative escape route from incident scene to fresh air base
- Test mine atmosphere to determine air quality
- Assess threats and dangers to mine personnel and rescuers
- Identify need for, and organise, additional rescue resources and equipment
- Clarify and confirm aided rescue strategy
- Extricate and evacuate endangered personnel to fresh air
- Isolate mine services and secure incident site for safe entry with the use of barricades and reinforcements
- Put on and test breathing apparatus
- Locate endangered mine personnel as per rescue strategy
- Assess and monitor physical and emotional condition of endangered personnel, provide support and administer emergency first aid where necessary
- Extricate endangered mine personnel from entrapment in line with workplace procedures
- Evacuate from incident scene by established or alternative escape route to fresh air base, according to aided rescue strategy and at optimum travel rate
- Maintain communication with emergency control and fresh air base personnel
- Monitor air and oxygen usage and adjust rate of travel accordingly
- Change over or refill self-rescuer and breathing apparatus
- Continuously monitor health, safety and environmental hazards, including mine atmosphere
- Evaluate the need for, locate and retreat to, a place of safety outside incident scene for endangered and rescue personnel, including building barricades for protection if required
- Perform post-incident procedures