Workplace Emergency Preparedness

This training covers the skills and knowledge required to manage a facility emergency response team assigned to control workplace emergencies in their early stages prior to the arrival of the emergency services and/or specialist response team. It includes establishing and maintaining emergency response teams, providing information and developing procedures, making recommendations for the provision of emergency equipment and managing its maintenance, arranging training for emergency response teams and monitoring and reporting on emergency response teams.

Depending on the size and structure of the facility management of the emergency may involve more than one facility emergency response team over more than one physical location, as specified in the emergency management plan.

The unit has been developed to cover the facilities as considered in Australian Standard (AS) 3745 or AS4083. For this unit, as covered by AS3745 and/or AS4083, occupants are people attending a facility on a permanent or temporary basis such as an employee, contractor, student or resident, but not a visitor or patient and a facility is a building, structure or workplace that is, or may be, occupied by people (occupants).

All aspects of the unit must be undertaken in accordance with legislative requirements, organisational policies and procedures, and accepted safe practices. It applies to members of an Emergency Planning Committee (EPC).