ERT - Emergency Response Team

⁠⁠⁠Emergency Response Team

Queensland Hydro is releasing this Request for Tender (RFT) to seek Tenders for the RFT-BUR-1007 Emergency Response Team (ERT) for the Exploratory Works phase of the Borumba PHES Project. The phase will run for approx 2 years.

The ERT will serve as the primary responder for any site-wide emergencies that exceed the emergency management capabilities of the Principal Contractors, whilst awaiting the arrival of professional emergency response agencies. This Project ERT will ensure a coordinated and effective response to major incidents.

This scope covers:

• Set up and fit out of offices/storage at stipulated locations

• Emergency Response Team Personnel

• Provision of Relevant Equipment

     o Suitable personal protective equipment for ERT members.

     o Vertical Rescue Equipment

     o A motor driven 4WD firefighting appliance to service both the Borgan and Yielo areas

     o Thermal imaging equipment (bushfire/grassfire).

     o Spill response equipment.

     o Vertical and confined space rescue equipment.

     o Road Crash Rescue Equipment.

     o 4WD light vehicle to move around site.

• Develop and maintain Project Emergency Response Plan

• Emergency Response Planning and Exercises

• Ongoing Monitoring and Improvement

• Undertake Light Vehicle Compliance Inspections

The ERT will be expected to provide an initial response to the following credible emergency scenarios, both above and underground:

• Traffic incident, involving light vehicles, heavy vehicles and/or mobile plant, including emergencies involving a requirement for vertical rescue (e.g. light vehicle has driven over an embankment and gone down a steep incline), vehicle roll over; collision between vehicles; pedestrian struck by vehicle;

• Incident involving workers in a confined space, trench or working at heights

• Incident involving workers being entangled in machinery

• Bushfire/ grassfire, started by Project work activities

• Bushfire/ grassfire started on land external to the Project, where the objective is to do emergency back burning on the Project site to support firefighting efforts of the Rural Fire Brigade

• Structural fire involving site administration/ office compounds or worker accommodation cam

• Fire involving large items of mobile plant/ heavy vehicles;

• Spillage of hazardous materials on land or water

• Medical incident involving the extraction of persons from difficult terrain, where road access is limited or non-existent (e.g. an injured worker located in a valley with steep inclines).

PLEASE NOTE - Returning the Intent to respond & attend the compulsory site inspection notice closes 5 pm next Wednesday 20 May.

Compulsory site inspection next Friday 22 May.