Emergency Response Plan

Purpose. This plan describes how each Deepridge site responds to fire, vehicle incidents, ground failure, explosives events, medical emergencies, spills, flooding and missing persons, and who is responsible for each action.

1.Purpose and scope

This plan applies to all Deepridge sites and to drilling and civil crews working on client sites, who must also follow the client's plan. It is tested by drills and reviewed after every drill and every real emergency.

2.Emergency roles

Each site has an emergency controller, who is the site manager or the shift supervisor, an emergency response team of trained responders, a muster warden for each area and a communications officer. Names for each shift are on the prestart record.

• Emergency controller: declares the emergency and directs the response
• Emergency response team: fire, rescue and first aid
• Muster wardens: account for people at muster points
• Communications officer: emergency services, regulator and head office

3.Raising the alarm

Any person who discovers an emergency must call the emergency channel on the two-way radio, state the location, the nature of the emergency and the number of people involved, and stay on the channel. The emergency controller will sound the site alarm and direct all plant to stop and park.

4.Fire on mobile plant

The operator must stop, apply the park brake, activate the fire suppression, shut down and evacuate upwind. Nobody will re-approach a burning machine. The emergency response team will attend with the fire truck and set an exclusion zone.

5.Ground failure and explosives events

For a highwall or dump failure, all people and plant must move out of the fall zone and the area must be barricaded until the geotechnical inspection is complete. For a misfire or unplanned initiation, the shotfirer controls the exclusion zone and nobody enters until the shotfirer declares the area safe.

6.Medical emergency and evacuation

First aid officers and the site medic respond to the location. The communications officer arranges the ambulance or helicopter through the emergency services and clears the helipad. Injured people will not be moved by untrained people unless there is immediate danger.

7.Drills and review

Each site will run one full emergency drill per quarter, rotating the scenario, and record the drill and its learnings in the Hazard and Incident Register. The emergency response team trains monthly.