ECO For Healthcare + Fire Awareness

The Emergency Control Oganisation (ECO) is the team of people responsible for responding in the event of an emergency that arises internally or externally that may affect the facility. The ECO will respond to the emergency, initiate emergency procedures as per your emergency plan and control entry to any affected areas until emergency services arrive. Wardens are a core role in the ECO and are responsible for checking that all areas of the facility are clear and communicating to the Chief Warden (directly or through an Area Warden). 

Warden/ECO training is designed to facilitate compliance to Section 43 of the WHS Regulation 2017 – Duty to prepare, maintain and implement emergency plan. The course structure aims to apply recommendations from section 5 of the Safe Work Australia Code of Practice – Managing the Work Environment and Facilities and provide training, information and advice in line with best practice and AS3745-2010 Planning for Emergencies in Facilities – in particular section 5 Emergency Control Organisation and Section 6 Training. It applies to employees in the workplace within all industries and in all contexts.

Healthcare facilities have specially designed life safety systems to ensure the safety of vulnerable and mobility impaired residents/patients in the event of an emergency. ECO Healthcare training teaches staff how to interact with the building systems to enable effective emergency response and optimum resident/patient safety. 

Fire Awareness and Safety Training is much more than simple fire extinguisher training. During the fire awareness session, students will learn how fire grows and spreads given the right conditions, fire containment techniques, what fire is made of and how different first attack firefighting equipment work. The session is concluded with a demonstration of fire blanket and/or fire hose reel and then each student will be given an opportunity to extinguish a live fire using portable fire extinguishers.