Course aim
The aim of this course is to ensure that learners are equipped with the knowledge and skills to respond, with purpose and confidence, to an emergency in a work place setting.
Target learner group
The target learners for this course are employees currently working within the Australian Electricity Supply Industry. This includes employees of network asset owners, contractors and sub-contractors in electricity Generation, Transmission and Distribution.
Those who work on the network must maintain currency of skills and competency in a range of safety and technical competencies. Relevant safety related training programs are often mandated by regulation or industry agreements and documented in state codes of practice.
Most learners will be licensed and trade qualified or hold a Certificate in a related technical discipline. In addition to trade qualifications, the learner groups will have completed a range of electrical and plant safety related training programs related to the roles they hold. Due to the significant safety risks in the industry these employees work within highly proceduralised workplaces with mature workplace safety systems.
Workers in the industry are required to regularly complete workplace safety risk assessment and work planning documentation, and therefore bring a solid foundational understanding of risk assessment and workplace safety documentation concepts and practices to the program.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner should be able to:
- Identify and mitigate risks and hazards in an ESI environment.
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider.
- Recognise and respond to life-threatening emergencies until emergency services arrive.
- Effectively confine and manage an emergency scene
- Correctly perform LV rescue
- Correctly respond to a fire emergency (confining and extinguishing)
- Perform CPR according to ARC guidelines.
- Apply appropriate first aid procedures
- Effectively review and communicate details of the incident.
- Appropriately debrief from the incident.
- Apply correct manual handling techniques.