91Plan must address emergency management

91 Plan must address emergency management

(1) The plan must address emergency management in relation to all licence activities. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the plan must do the following: (a) identify, and include an analysis of, each kind of emergency that could reasonably foreseeably arise in relation to the licence activities; (b) describe measures to reduce the likelihood of each kind of emergency identified under paragraph (a) occurring; (c) describe a plan (an emergency response plan) for responding to each kind of emergency identified under paragraph (a); (d) without limiting paragraph (c), require the emergency response plan to do the following for each kind of emergency identified under paragraph (a): (i) describe the capabilities, roles and responsibilities of the licence holder and any other person or organisation in relation to that kind of emergency; (ii) set out processes to quickly and effectively respond to that kind of emergency; (iii) set out processes to ensure timely notification to, and effective communication with, workers, responders, emergency service providers and other persons and organisations in the event of that kind of emergency; (e) require the licence holder to prepare, maintain and implement an emergency response plan that is consistent with the description included under paragraph (c) and complies with the requirements included in the plan under paragraph (d); (f) describe measures for monitoring the effectiveness of the emergency response plan, including arrangements for testing the emergency response plan; (g) describe how the licence holder will provide appropriate information, training and instruction, including a copy of the emergency response plan, to persons and organisations who could reasonably foreseeably be involved in an emergency in relation to the licence activities. (3) The testing arrangements described in the plan under paragraph (2)(f) must include a schedule of tests of the emergency response plan, which must require the response plan to be tested at least: (a) when the emergency response plan is introduced; and (b) when the emergency response plan is significantly modified; and (c) in any case—at least once in any period of 12 months. (4) The testing arrangements must also: (a) describe the objectives of the tests; and (b) describe how the outcomes of the tests are to be measured; and (c) describe how the licence holder is to use the results of tests to improve the emergency response plan. (5) The Regulator may only approve the plan if the Regulator is satisfied that the emergency response plan described in the plan will be reasonably likely to ensure that the licence holder is able to respond to emergencies that occur in relation to the licence activities.