1 Day 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course covers the skills and knowledge for preparing for emergency situations, identifying and assessing an emergency, safely confining emergencies, using initial response equipment and reporting on the facility's emergency response.

If you are an occupant of a facility who is required to have first attack firefighting skills for small emergencies, such as small fires that can be controlled using a fire extinguisher, then this course is a must for you. The course also applies to individuals who may be required to make decisions about the safety of occupants of a facility during an emergency and to give instructions on the priority order for responding to an emergency incident, including command, control and coordination of facility emergency response procedures and concluding the facility emergency incident. They may also be required to act as the primary liaison with emergency services. Individuals who undertake this role will generally be members of an Emergency Control Organisation (ECO), acting as chief wardens, deputy chief wardens and communications officers.   

The course has been developed to cover a broad range of emergencies and facilities as considered in Australian Standard 3745 and Australian Standard 4083. It applies to employees in the workplace within all industries and in all contexts.
 

Participants will learn:

• Applying Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements

• Communicating with occupants, emergency personnel and stakeholders

• Complying with facility policies and procedures

• Confining emergencies safely 

• Giving and following instructions

• Identifying and acting to avoid or control any associated hazards 

• Identifying and assessing an emergency

• Implementing facility emergency response procedures

• Preparing for emergency situations 

• Reporting facility emergency response

• Restowing initial response equipment

• Using initial response equipment

• Utilising risk management processes

• Brief emergency services personnel

• Command, control and coordinate facility emergency response procedures

• Comply with legislation, industry standards, codes of practice and regulations concluding facility emergency

• Give clear directions and keep others informed throughout the emergency in accordance with facility emergency plan

• Identify evacuation assembly areas

• Implement facility emergency response procedures

• Interpret information displayed on emergency control indicator equipment including fire indicator panel, building management system and security management system

• Prepare for emergencies in a facility

• Respond to emergency signals and warnings appropriately

• Undertake pre-emergency planning
   

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