- Author
- Country Fire Authority | Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board
- Title
- Emergency Management Manual. How to Produce an Emergency Management Plan for Your Premises.
- Coporate
- Country Fire Authority, Victoria, Australia Metropolitan Fire and emergency Services Board, Australia
- Report
- Manual, April 1999, 67 p.
- Keywords
- manuals | emergencies | emergency plans | risk management | education | training | planning
- Identifiers
- Emergency Contacts; Response Procedures and MSDS's; ECO Responsibilities; Reporting and Recording; Site Plans and Assembly Areas
- Abstract
- The primary purpose of this Emergency Management Manual is to assist organisations such as yours to create a safer and more planned response to the ever present threat of fire and other emergencies. The risk management attitude of the document recognises that a planned and practiced response by trained people tends to reduce the potential for irrational behaviour during emergency situations. This in turn enhances the potential for safe and effective actions during periods of need, whilst also minimising your organisation's exposure to risk. A further benefit of this publication is the propensity for the emergency management plan to assist your organisation in discharging its statutory and common law responsibilities, in respect to the health and safety of those within the site, and within the surrounding areas. To this end, the document has been created with extensive referral to AS 3745 - 1995 "Emergency control organisation and procedures for buildings". Elements have also been included from AS 4083 - 1997 "Planning for emergencies - Health care facilities". Every effort has been made to ensure that this guide has been produced in plain english to step you, the new owner of the manual, through the process of producing a site specific Emergency Management Plan. This package can easily be adapted for use in homes, childcare centres, schools, places of public assembly, businesses, office buildings, factories, warehouses, and sites with small amounts of dangerous goods. However, this guide should not be used for Health Care facilities - there are separate and more extensive guidelines for these establishments. The result should be a living document that is site specific, and thus suits the unique requirements of yourself, and your organisation. All of the word processing files that may have to be utilised during the planning process have been produced in two formats - Microsoft Word (versions 6.0 and 7.0), and WordPerfect (versions 6.1 and 7.0). At the end of this guide is the foundation for your Emergency Management Plan. Notably, it is presented in the standardised format that has been adopted by your fire service, and is therefore easily recognisable by all fire brigade personnel. The format has also been produced in such a way that all other emergency services will also be able to easily understand the plan if they are called on to assist you. Finally, it is important that you recognise that there are two elements to every successful Emergency Management Plan. The first is the production of the document itself. The second element is the training, practices, debriefs, and general administration of the plan. Without the second element, the practical worth of the plan becomes dubious at best. You will find that there are mechanisms within this document that act to avoid such dire situations, but the ultimate liability for the success of the plan lies with the motivation of your organisation's staff.