By the end
What you'll build
- Raise an alarm with the information an emergency controller needs
- Follow site evacuation, muster and refuge procedures, including refuge chamber use protocols
- State your own limits as an untrained responder and what to do while waiting for trained help
- Describe the incident command structure and who you take direction from during an emergency
- Take part in a drill and contribute useful observations to the debrief
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 36 lessons
- 01
Before the Emergency
6 lessons- Knowing Your Escape Routes Before You Need Them
- Alarm Types and What Each One Means
- Muster Points, Refuge Chambers and Head Counts
- Emergency Equipment Locations and Routine Checks
- Personal Preparedness at the Start of Shift
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Raising the Alarm
6 lessons- The First Sixty Seconds: What to Say and to Whom
- Radio Discipline During an Incident
- Describing Location Precisely Underground
- Reporting Casualty Information Without Guesswork
- When to Get Clear Before Reporting
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Emergency Types
7 lessons- Fire Underground and Why It Behaves Differently
- Ground Failure and Entrapment
- Inrush, Flooding and Water Hazards
- Gas Events and Loss of Breathable Atmosphere
- Mobile Plant and Vehicle Incidents
- + 2 more lessons
- 04
Response Structure
6 lessons- Incident Command and Where You Fit In It
- Incident Controller, Sector Leaders and Runners
- What a Mines Rescue Team Actually Does
- Handing Information Over to Responders
- Why Communication With Media and Families Is Controlled
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Drills and Recovery
6 lessons- Getting Real Value Out of an Emergency Drill
- Debriefing Without Blame
- Failure Patterns That Show Up in Most Drills
- Site Re-Entry and Return to Operations
- Psychological Aftercare and Support Pathways
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
Practice and check
5 lessons- Match the term to what it actually doesmatch pairs
- Smoke on the belt: the first ten minutessequence order
- Complete the emergency response principlefill blank
- Hot rubber on the night shiftscenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
36 lessons across 6 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.
