PUASAR026 — Undertake industrial and domestic rescue

Elements & performance criteria

Performance evidence

• accessing the scene including allowing clear access and egress for other responding vehicles and ambulances and establishing a clear area to manoeuvre personnel and stretchers
• applying a systematic approach to rescues and implementing safe work practices throughout the incident
• applying Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements including risk mitigation
• assessing and monitoring impact effects on occupancy areas
• completing documentation including post incident exposure reports
• conducting a primary survey
• conducting and concluding industrial and/or domestic rescue operations
• developing access plans
• establishing and maintaining communication methods
• establishing and maintaining rescue scene safety
• establishing safe work areas
• extracting casualties safely whist minimising further injury or discomfort to casualty, self and others
• following organisational policies and procedures
• gaining access to casualties
• identifying, selecting and checking rescue resources
• implementing hygiene precautions
• maintaining situational awareness and being alert to environmental and situation hazards
• making decisions related to the rescue
• managing and removing casualties
• operating rescue equipment to gain access to casualties
• participating in briefings and contributing to debriefings
• performing triage assessments
• preparing for industrial and/or domestic rescues including collecting operational and task information and resources
• preserving scene evidence including defining and redefining scene boundary, preserving evidence and related legal requirements and securing the scene
• recovering, cleaning and servicing rescue equipment
• selecting and wearing personal protective clothing and equipment
• stabilising and treating casualties
• stabilising the occupancy area
• undertaking a systematic approach to identifying potential hazards and risks
• undertaking rescue scene assessments including collecting information about casualties and hazards, isolating and eliminating utilities and surveying the incident scene
• using communication equipment and techniques
• working as a member of a rescue team in a multi-organisational environment and within an organisation’s incident management structure

Knowledge evidence

• access to casualty including accessing elevator shafts, disassembly of machinery, managing moving machinery, managing utilities supplies and removing domestic plumbing
• access to the scene including allowing clear access and egress for other responding vehicles and ambulances and establishing a clear area to manoeuvre personnel and stretchers
• casualty care procedures including triage
• casualty extrication including potential impacts and effects and use of rescue spinal boards, stretchers and team stretcher handling
• characteristics and limitations of rescue equipment
• communication methods and techniques
• hazard treatments
• hygiene precautions
• impact effects on occupancy areas including isolation of essential services
• incident reports, field notes and logbook requirements
• limitation of rescue equipment including access to incident site and equipment capabilities and limitations
• manufacturers’ equipment guidelines
• need for situational awareness
• operation and task information including availability of company personnel to provide technical advice, environmental and other hazards at the scene, other public safety organisations at the scene or en route, time of day and difficulty in accessing scene, type of machinery or household items involved and type of rescue and number of casualties
• organisational documentation, policies and procedures
• other relevant personnel and/or experts
• potential hazards and risks
• preserving evidence
• primary surveys
• processes and procedures for briefings and debriefings
• recover, clean and service equipment including cleaning or disposal, contaminated clothing and equipment, equipment inspected for damage and serviceability and inventories checked
• removal of casualties including rescue and spine boards, stretchers, team stretcher and handling
• rescue personnel roles and responsibilities and role of participating organisations
• rescue resources including ancillary equipment such as stretchers, equipment and hand tools; hot cutting equipment; lifting and hauling equipment; lighting equipment; pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical electrical tools; patient protection equipment; rescue units and sowed equipment and tools boxes
• rescue scene assessment including collecting information about casualties and hazards; isolating and eliminating utilities and surveying incident scene
• risk assessment processes including safe work practices
• situational and environmental hazards including adverse weather, biological hazards such as body fluids and tissue, convergence, difficult terrain, dusts, electrical and mechanical moving machinery, electricity, equipment power and drive systems, gas, hazardous materials and atmospheres, location, stability and movements of machinery, machinery fuel systems, mobile property, sharp and jagged objects, slippery surfaces, water and sewerage utilities
• systematic approach identifying potential hazards and risks
• treating hazards including eliminating the hazard; isolating the area and source; stabilising overhead hazards and using personal protective clothing and equipment
• types of domestic rescue procedures and techniques including children with fingers in drain plugs; removal of rings and persons who are physically incapable of removing themselves from their houses due to ill health
• types of industrial rescue procedures and techniques including agricultural machinery; disentanglement from machinery located in factories, warehouses and building sites; elevators and escalators; industrial and construction incidents; industrial machinery entrapments; occupants trapped in elevators and escalators and shut in shipping containers
• use of personal protective clothing and equipment
• Work, Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) requirements including risk mitigation

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