Emergency Plans and Procedures
At PARCOR, we have a passion for developing comprehensive and compliant emergency plans and procedures tailored to facilities unique needs. Our expertise ensures your emergency documentation aligns with AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities, providing clear, actionable guidance for your team during critical situations.
Emergency plans and procedures are essential for improving safety and preparedness, ensuring all personnel understand their roles and responsibilities during an emergency. By collaborating closely with your organisation’s Emergency Planning Committee (EPC), we create practical and effective documentation that supports your organisation’s emergency management objectives.
What’s included?
- We work alongside your EPC to incorporate their insights, address facility-specific risks, and align the plans with your organisational goals.
- A thorough assessment of your facility to identify potential types of emergencies and evaluate risks based on your site’s operations, layout, and environment.
- Development of a bespoke emergency plan that outlines specific responses for identified scenarios, ensuring clarity, practicality, and compliance with relevant standards.
- Provision of both editable and PDF formats of your emergency plans.
How does it happen?
- After approval, we’ll schedule an initial meeting with your Emergency Planning Committee to discuss your facility’s unique needs, potential risks
- Our consultant will tour your facility with an EPC representative, identifying potential emergency scenarios and associated risks.
- We’ll prepare a draft of the emergency plan and procedures, ensuring it reflects the EPC’s feedback and facility-specific requirements and present it to your EPC for any refinement or approval
- After incorporating all feedback, we’ll provide you with the final emergency plan and procedures in electronic formats.
Evacuation Diagrams
At PARCOR, we develop accurate and compliant evacuation diagrams tailored to the unique needs of your facility. Our consultants ensure that each diagram meets the requirements of AS 3745-2010: Planning for emergencies in facilities, providing clear and effective guidance for building occupants during emergencies. These diagrams are a critical component of emergency planning, helping to enhance safety and preparedness across your site.
By thoroughly assessing your facility’s layout, evacuation routes, and potential hazards, our team creates user-friendly diagrams that prioritise clarity and practicality. Whether your site is large or small, PARCOR is committed to delivering evacuation diagrams that promote safety, align with standards, and support your organisation’s emergency management goals.
What’s included?
- A review of your site including any evacuation routes and emergency equipment
- Development of compliant evacuation diagrams
- Electronic copies of the evacuation diagrams in both editable and pdf formats
How does it happen?
- After getting the “go ahead” we will contact you to arrange a suitable date or dates to attend the site
- We will tour your workplace escorted by someone that knows the ins and outs whilst we mark up the location of any emergency equipment and exit routes
- We will create an initial draft of the evacuation diagram and supply it to you for review
- From there, we will spend some time at our desk producing each of the “you are here” locations
- We will provide you with the final electronic copies
Emergency Exercises
PARCOR specialises in conducting comprehensive emergency exercises tailored for large organisations and major hazard facilities. These exercises go beyond standard evacuation drills, focusing on a holistic approach to emergency management. They are designed to test and improve all aspects of an organisation’s emergency response, including communication, coordination, resource management, and business continuity. By simulating realistic emergency scenarios, PARCOR helps organisations identify gaps, strengthen response capabilities, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements—ultimately fostering a safer and more resilient workplace.
What’s Included?
- Tailored emergency scenarios specific to your facility’s operations, risks, and potential hazards.
- Exercises designed to test every layer of emergency response—from frontline staff to senior management—ensuring seamless coordination.
- Alignment of exercises with your existing emergency plans and procedures to validate their effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
- Testing of internal and external communication channels, including media response, stakeholder updates, and emergency services coordination.
- Evaluation of resource allocation, decision-making processes, and strategies to maintain or resume critical operations.
- Comprehensive debriefings and reports that highlight strengths, pinpoint gaps, and provide actionable recommendations for continuous improvement.
How Does It Happen?
- We begin with a consultation to understand your facility’s unique risks, operational complexities, and emergency management objectives.
- Our experts develop realistic, high-impact emergency scenarios that challenge your organisation’s preparedness across all departments.
- PARCOR facilitates the exercise, engaging all relevant personnel in a controlled and safe environment while testing procedures, communication, and decision-making under pressure.
- Throughout the exercise, our team observes and evaluates performance, focusing on response times, coordination, and resource deployment.
- After the exercise, we conduct a detailed debrief with participants and provide a comprehensive report outlining strengths, areas for improvement, and practical recommendations.
- We offer guidance on implementing corrective actions and refining your emergency management framework to enhance overall resilience.
