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Key Features:
• Uniform Structure: Each template includes clearly defined sections for job steps, potential hazards, risk matrices, control measures, and emergency procedures.
• Comprehensive Hazard Identification: Systematically record foreseeable hazards at every stage of your work process—from preparation and equipment checks to final debriefing.
• Customisable Details: Easily insert your organisation’s information, project specifics, and relevant legislative references, ensuring the document meets your unique operational needs.
• Regulatory Compliance: Built to align with Australia’s WHS legislation and Codes of Practice, these templates include guidance notes and reference links to help you stay compliant.
• Emergency Preparedness & Documentation: Integrated sections for emergency response planning and thorough documentation review ensure all critical safety information is captured and easily accessible.
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The Dealing With Emergencies Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Risk of fire
- inadequate emergency procedures
- lack of first aid staff
- 2. Identifying Incident Type
- Encountering hazardous substances
- unidentified risks
- 3. Alert Authorities
- Communications failure
- delay in response time
- 4. Evacuation Route Planning
- Blocked exits
- inadequate signage
- panic causing stampedes
- 5. Managing Injured Personnel
- Inadequate first aid equipment
- further injury during movement
- 6. Supportive Care
- Stress and shock-related issues
- lack of trained personnel
- 7. Building Clearance
- Return to unsafe environment
- lingering hazards
- 8. Debrief and Welfare Check
- Post-incident stress
- missing personnel counts
- 9. Communication with Media
- Unauthentic information provision
- media-induced panic
- 10. Damage Assessment
- Structural instabilities
- secondary emergencies like gas leaks
- 11. Insurance Reporting
- Misreporting damages
- insurance fraud
- 12. Clean Up Operations
- Exposure to hazardous substances
- injury from sharp or heavy debris
- 13. Counselling Services
- Emotional impacts not professionally managed
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- 14. Restoration Project Planning
- Contractor scams
- poor quality restorations
- uninsured restoration risks
- 15. Execution of Restoration Plan
- Inadequate safety during restoration works
- structural failures
- 16. Post-Restoration Safety Check
- Mishandling safety check equipment
- overlooking safety issues
- 17. Training for Future Emergencies
- Inadequate training provisions
- non-completion of training programmes
- 18. Updating Safety Manuals
- Outdated instructions
- using wrong materials in updating
- 19. Improving Emergency Procedures
- Incorporating unsafe procedure changes
- failure to review new procedures
- 20. Regulatory Compliance Checks
- Missing key safety regulations
- incomplete safety audit processes