Elements and Performance Criteria
- Evaluate breakdown and emergency situations
- Causes and effects of breakdown/emergency situations are identified and clarified
- Breakdown/emergency coordination procedures are applied in accordance with workplace policies
- Assistance is provided to injured persons within limitations of duty of care responsibilities and workplace requirements
- Load is identified and nature of risks and hazards are established and communicated to relevant authorities
- Appropriate precautions and actions are taken where load is identified as including dangerous goods, explosives or hazardous substances, in accordance with relevant codes of practice, regulations and related procedures
- Consult with relevant persons and authorities
- Details of causes and effects of breakdown/emergency are reported in accordance with workplace procedures
- Assistance and cooperation is provided to relevant authorities within legal and workplace limitations
- Information about breakdown/emergency is obtained and/or exchanged in accordance with legal and workplace requirements
- Coordinate breakdown and emergency situations
- Suitable measures are taken to control, warn, stop or divert traffic at breakdown/emergency site
- Personal security precautions are taken in accordance with workplace procedures
- Assistance is requested to minimise possibility of further damage to persons or property, in accordance with workplace policy, and relevant rules and regulations
- Appropriate measures are taken to control and protect breakdown/emergency site
- Traffic at breakdown/emergency site is controlled, as required, in accordance with regulatory requirements and workplace procedures
- Complete documentation
- Required breakdown/emergency documentation and report procedures and processes are confirmed
- Documentation and reports are filled in legibly and proofread
- Documentation and reports are processed in accordance with workplace requirements