If you manage or operate a facility in Australia, whether it’s an office, warehouse, school, aged care site, commercial space, or yes, even a centre for ants, you are required to plan for emergencies.
That means more than having a document on file. It means putting the right structure, people and systems in place so your site can respond properly when something goes wrong.
Depending on your facility, that may include:
- An Emergency Control Organisation (ECO)
- An Emergency Planning Committee (EPC)
- Warden training
- First attack firefighting training
- Evacuation diagrams
- An emergency plan
- Emergency exercises
At ACTWELL, we deliver this work in line with AS 3745-2010, Planning for emergencies in facilities. Where relevant, we also work in line with AS 4083-2010, Planning for emergencies: Health care facilities.
What this looks like in practice
Emergency planning is not one job. It is a connected system.
Your emergency plan sets the framework. Your ECO and EPC help keep it active. Training prepares people for their roles. Evacuation diagrams support safe movement through the building. Exercises test whether any of it actually works in practice.
If one part is missing or out of date, the whole system gets weaker.
What ACTWELL provides
We help organisations build, review and maintain the parts of that system, including:
- Warden and ECO training
- First attack firefighting training
- Emergency plans
- Evacuation diagrams
- Emergency exercises
- Emergency planning consultancy and EPC support
Delivered by emergency service professionals
Our training and consultancy are delivered by current and former emergency service professionals with real operational experience in the methods they teach.
That does not just change the credibility of the training. It changes how it is delivered. The examples are more practical, the guidance is more grounded, and the learning is easier for teams to apply to their own site.
What’s included in our training
Depending on the service or course, delivery may include:
- A site visit to gather information about your facility
- Training tailored to your layout, systems and procedures
- Certificates of attendance or statements of attainment for accredited courses
- Relevant, practical theory
- Hands-on training
- Time for discussion, questions and team-based learning
- On-site or off-site delivery options
Where to start
If you are not sure what your facility needs, start with the basics:
- Do you have a current emergency plan?
- Do you have current evacuation diagrams?
- Do you have an active EPC?
- Are your wardens trained?
- Have you tested your procedures in the last 12 months?
- If the answer to some of those is no, that gives you your starting point.
- Next steps