Emergency Planning Committee Online

Learning Outcomes:

• Identifying events that could reasonably produce emergency situations.
• Developing an emergency plan.
• Ensuring that resources are provided to enable the development and implementation of the emergency plan.
• Nominating the validity period for the emergency plan and the evacuation diagram. NOTE:
• The validity period should not exceed 5 years but may be less than 5 yearly, depending on the requirements of a maintenance cycle, a major change to the facility or an accreditation regime.
• Ensuring that the emergency plan is readily identifiable and available to the appropriate persons.
• Establishing an emergency control organization to operate in accordance with the emergency plan.
• Authorizing the release and implementation of the emergency plan. The following shall apply to the implementation process:
• Awareness of the emergency response procedures.
• Training: For Emergency Control Organisation members and facility occupants.
• Testing the emergency response procedures
• Review of procedures during implementation and amending as required
• Establishing arrangements to ensure the continuing operation of the Emergency Control Organisation.
• Ensuring that the register of Emergency Control Organisation members is current and readily available.
• Establishing strategies to ensure visitors are made aware of emergency response procedures.
• Ensuring that the emergency response procedures remain viable and effective by reviewing, and testing the emergency response procedures at least annually.
• Ensuring that the emergency plan is reviewed at the end of the validity period, after an emergency, an exercise, or any changes that affect the emergency plan.
• Ensuring that a permanent record of events for each emergency is compiled and retained.
  Identifying and rectifying deficiencies and opportunities for improvement in the emergency plan and emergency response procedures.