Emergency Response Plans, evacuation drills, mine emergency response, fire and rescue exercises and crisis management — built by directors with real industrial fire, paramedic and emergency operations experience. Not theoretical templates.
Emergency response is the single area of WHS where consultancy advice has the most asymmetric value. A well-designed plan, rehearsed by competent responders, can stop an event escalating from a near-miss to a fatality. A poorly designed plan, or a great plan that has never been drilled, fails in exactly the moment you need it most.
Most safety consultancies treat emergency response as a documentation exercise: write a plan, file it, list the wardens. We treat it as an operational capability. Our director Jeremy Gutteridge has 28 years of frontline experience including industrial fire and rescue, paramedic practice and police emergency operations, with 18 years of heavy industry emergency response experience. That experience changes how we design plans, how we train responders, and how we run exercises.
We have seen what works at 2am in a control room when alarms are sounding and the duty manager is trying to remember what they read in a plan they haven’t looked at in 18 months. Everything we deliver is designed for that moment.
Site-specific Emergency Response Plans aligned to AS 3745 (workplaces and facilities) and the WA Code of Practice for Emergency Management for Western Australian Mines. We write plans that are usable under stress — clear roles, decision authority, contact lists that are actually maintained, and pre-positioned response options for credible scenarios.
Specific to underground and surface mining operations. Aligned to the WA Mines Code of Practice. Covers fire, mine collapse, runaway equipment, hazardous chemical release, hydrogen / methane events, vehicle incidents, isolated worker emergencies and surface emergency interface with public services.
For mid-to-large operators who need a crisis management capability above and beyond site-level emergency response. Includes crisis team composition, escalation triggers, executive decision authority, media and stakeholder communication protocols, and integration with insurance, legal and parent-company processes.
AS 3745 compliant evacuation diagrams, signage layouts, assembly point design and warden role definitions. Critical for offices, retail, manufacturing facilities and any workplace with significant occupancy.
This is where most plans fail in real life. We design and facilitate emergency exercises ranging from desktop scenarios for executive teams through to full-scale field drills involving real emergency services, smoke generators, casualty actors and live communications. After-action reviews are conducted within 24 hours so learning is captured while it is fresh.
Protocols for internal alerting, regulator notification (DMIRS, WorkSafe WA, NOPSEMA), public communications and family liaison. Includes templates for the first hour of a serious event when getting the right messages out fast is critical.
We have delivered emergency response work for mining (open pit and underground), oil & gas, power generation, port operations, marine, manufacturing, processing facilities, healthcare, hospitality and the public sector. Common to all: the plan must work when people are scared, tired and time-poor.
Book a free 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you honestly whether this is the right service for your situation, and quote a fixed fee within 48 hours.
Request a quote →Yes. Smaller workplaces still have AS 3745 obligations and benefit from ERPs that are right sized to their risk and occupancy. We deliver office, retail, hospitality and small manufacturing ERPs regularly.
Yes. All mine emergency response work is aligned with the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety Code of Practice for Emergency Management for Western Australian Mines, the WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022 and any specific principal contractor requirements.
AS 3745 requires evacuation exercises annually as a minimum. WA mining operations should run scenario-based emergency exercises at least quarterly, with at least one full-scale exercise per year covering credible major hazards. We can design an exercise calendar that meets these expectations and integrates with your operational rhythm.
Strategic and operational WHS support — from one-off advice through to retained advisory arrangements for SMEs and project-based operations.
Independent gap analyses against ISO 45001, WHS legislation and client-specific frameworks. Clear, ranked findings — not 80-page PDFs that gather dust.
Tailored SMS development and uplift. Risk registers, safe work procedures, contractor management — built to integrate with your operations.
Whether it's a fresh tender, an audit deadline, a notifiable incident or a long-overdue SMS uplift — we'll respond fast and quote fixed.