Emergency Response Workplace Compliance Check
Understanding Australian Standards can be difficult and time consuming. This quick and free tool allows you to check if your workplace is up to…
Understanding Australian Standards can be difficult and time consuming. This quick and free tool allows you to check if your workplace is up to…
There’s no denying it, we’re experiencing more frequent, life-threatening emergencies across Australia each year. Responding to these events however requires more resources, smarter strategies…
This case study will examine the lessons learned about compliance to Australian Standards and the importance of emergency planning and training from the tragic 2016…
Names have been changed to protect client identities. Suttons Medical Centre is a multi-tenanted office building in rural NSW that accommodates individual medical and allied…
The Emergency Control Organisation (ECO) is a structured organisation that assumes control and authority during an emergency (Standards Australia, 2010, p. 27). The ECO team…
Incidents within the “Hostile Intruder” spectrum may occur as a singular event requiring a response by the occupants of a facility. However, as we have…
According to the Australian Standard (AS3745-2010, pp. 27, Clause 5.3), the Emergency Planning Committee will determine the number of Emergency Control Organisation (ECO) members based…
The current pandemic has had a major impact on our lives and business and may continue for some time yet. Many organisations have closed or…