Training & Education
Prepare for the unexpected with tailored emergency response training courses BEING PREPARED FOR POTENTIAL ACCIDENTS IS A VITAL SKILL FOR MINERS WHEN WORKING AT HEIGHTS, UNDERGROUND OR WITH CHEMICALS AND EXPLOSIVES. AUSTRALASIA FIRE & EMERGENCY RESPONSE COLLEGE IS TRAINING WORKERS TO DEAL WITH A RANGE OF COMMON MINE ACCIDENTS AND DANGERS. The Australasia Fire & Emergency Response College provides trainees with a life-like environment to refine fire and emergency rescue skills.
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ustralasia Fire & Emergency Response College trains Australian workers to safely and competently respond to mine fires, hazardous material incidents, vertical rescues, confined space rescues and even road crash incidents. The organisation offers a nationally accredited Emergency Response & Rescue Training (up to and including the Certificate III Emergency Response and Rescue qualification) to prepare them for these events. Australasia Fire & Emergency Response College tailors the learnings to their specific commodities, mine types and even a worker’s own mine site, offering a personalised learning experience for every situation. Australasia Fire & Emergency Response College prepares workers in mining and the oil and gas industry to deal with fires, respond safely to hazardous materials incidents, perform confined space rescue, and work and rescue from heights. Safe to Work discusses the learnings on offer under the Certificate III qualification with Australasia Fire & Emergency Response College, college
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manager Jason Humphries. “We prepare emergency responders to deal with any scenario possible when an incident occurs at their site,” Humphries says. “The Certificate III provides students with the knowledge and skills to deal with an incident to the best of their ability, with qualifications specific to both underground and surface mining operations. “We offer different training in respect to the various breathing apparatuses each mining operation uses and the incidents that are more likely to occur.” For example, underground mining emergency response teams require more knowledge of using long duration breathing apparatuses in poor ventilation, while surface coal miners require familiarity with fires more than miners of other commodities. To provide a more life-like experience, the Australasia Fire & Emergency Response College team incorporates live fire gas props and virtual reality systems into its training. Humphries says realistic scenarios are incorporated into the training to provide students with knowledge and
