Emergency Management Consulting for Facilities and Precincts
Agilient plans, documents and tests emergency arrangements for facilities and for shared precincts, to AS 3745-2010 Planning for emergencies in facilities. The work covers the emergency planning committee, the emergency plan, response procedures, the emergency control organisation, and the exercises that prove the arrangements work.
What is Emergency Management Planning?
Emergency management planning is the arrangement that determines who is in charge when something goes wrong in a building or a precinct, what they are authorised to do, how occupants are warned and moved, and how the response hands over to the fire brigade, police or ambulance when they arrive.
Agilient works across two dimensions. The first is the organisational or facility dimension: how a single organisation responds to emergencies in its own building, using an all-hazards approach that extends from fire and structural failure to health emergencies covered by pandemic planning. The second is the precinct dimension. A precinct is a shared space in which many separate organisations operate, such as a civic square, an entertainment or sporting quarter, or a transport interchange. There, the task is to negotiate a shared plan between organisations that do not report to one another, and because the space is usually public, mass warning, evacuation and integration with the emergency services need particular attention.
Agilient bases its approach to organisational emergencies on AS 3745-2010 Planning for emergencies in facilities. For the standards and how emergency management relates to business continuity and crisis management, see the emergency management guide.
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Why Choose Agilient for Emergency Management?
Agilient is an independent security, risk and resilience consultancy. It does not sell alarms, warning systems or evacuation hardware, so the arrangements it recommends are shaped by the hazards and the standard rather than by a product range.
Facility and Precinct Experience
Agilient plans emergencies both for single facilities and for shared precincts, where several organisations occupy one space and no single party is in charge. The precinct problem is a negotiation problem as much as a planning one.
Standards-Based and Defensible
Arrangements are built to AS 3745-2010 Planning for emergencies in facilities, and integrated with the relevant state emergency services, so the plan holds up when it is examined after an incident rather than before one.
Tested, Not Just Written
An emergency plan is worth what it does under pressure. Agilient validates procedures through exercises with the people who would actually have to run them, and folds the findings back into the plan.
The Importance of Emergency Planning
Emergencies are the one part of the risk picture where the response happens in minutes and cannot be improvised. Facilities carry work health and safety duties toward the people in them, and shared precincts add the problem that no single organisation controls the space. Where the emergency planning committee has not met, the control organisation is unnamed, or the procedures have never been exercised, the plan exists on paper only, and that is discovered at the worst possible moment.
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What Is Involved in Emergency Management Services?
Agilient delivers the full set of arrangements required by AS 3745-2010, for a single facility or for a shared precinct. Each element can be delivered on its own or as one program.
Emergency Planning Committee
Forming the emergency planning committee, defining its purpose and responsibilities, and training its members. For a precinct this means bringing separate organisations into one committee with an agreed remit.
Emergency Identification
Identifying the emergencies the facility or precinct must plan for, using an all-hazards approach rather than a fixed list, so the plan covers what the site is actually exposed to.
Emergency Plan Development
Developing the organisational, facility or precinct emergency plan: the document that states what happens, who decides, and how occupants and the public are warned and moved.
Emergency Response Procedures
Developing the response procedures that sit under the plan, at the level of detail a warden can act on during an incident rather than read afterwards.
Emergency Control Organisation
Establishing the emergency control organisation, defining its authority, and training the chief warden and wardens who will exercise it.
Testing, Validation and Training
Testing and validating the procedures through exercises, delivering emergency-related training, and integrating the arrangements with the emergency services in the relevant state or territory.
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Agilient is appointed to multiple Australian Government procurement panels and is a DISP member. It is independent and vendor-neutral, its founder is a former Executive Director of Standards Australia, and it is licensed to operate in each state in which it works. Agilient has delivered more than 300 projects for Australian organisations.
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With a national footprint, our security consulting services support organisations across Australia in managing risk, compliance, and security strategy. We combine industry expertise with a practical approach to deliver consistent outcomes across all states and territories.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Agilient bases its approach to organisational and facility emergencies on AS 3745-2010 Planning for emergencies in facilities. It sets out the emergency planning committee, the emergency plan, emergency response procedures, the emergency control organisation, and the requirement to test and validate the arrangements.
Facility emergency management covers how a single organisation responds to emergencies in its own building. Precinct emergency management covers a shared space in which many separate organisations operate and none is in charge of the whole. A precinct plan has to be negotiated between organisations that do not report to one another, and because the space is usually public it needs particular attention to mass warning, evacuation and integration with the emergency services.
The emergency control organisation is the group of people, typically a chief warden and wardens, who are given the authority to direct the response to an emergency in a facility or precinct until the emergency services take over. Establishing it, defining its authority and training it are requirements of AS 3745-2010.
AS 3745-2010 requires emergency response procedures to be tested and validated, and evacuation exercises are conducted at planned intervals. The right frequency depends on the site, its occupants and how much has changed, and an exercise is also the fastest way to find out whether a plan written some time ago still reflects how the building is used.
They address different phases and time horizons. Emergency management handles the immediate life-safety response in the first minutes. Crisis management handles the strategic decisions and the reputational and stakeholder consequences. Business continuity keeps the organisation delivering while the disruption continues. The three should be designed to hand over to one another rather than run separately.
