Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) Training
Prepares Emergency Planning Committee members to develop, maintain and review the workplace emergency plan. Covers committee responsibilities, risk identification, emergency arrangements, training oversight and continuous improvement. Site-focused and practical.
Course overview
The Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) is responsible for the workplace emergency plan — the foundation everything else rests on. This course prepares EPC members to carry out that responsibility with confidence, ensuring your emergency arrangements are sound, current and genuinely fit for your site.
Participants learn the role and responsibilities of the EPC under AS 3745, how to identify and assess the emergencies relevant to your facility, and how to develop and document the emergency plan, response procedures and evacuation arrangements. The course also covers the EPC's oversight role: establishing and supporting the Emergency Control Organisation, ensuring wardens and occupants are trained, and validating procedures through evacuation exercises.
Importantly, the training addresses the EPC's ongoing duty to review and continuously improve the plan — keeping it aligned with changes to the building, occupancy, operations and risk profile. Delivered on-site and tailored to your facility, it aligns with AS 3745 (Planning for emergencies in facilities) and supports your wider WHS and emergency planning obligations.
Suitable for EPC members, facility and building managers, WHS personnel and others with responsibility for emergency planning across offices, healthcare facilities, educational campuses, retail premises, accommodation facilities, warehouses and industrial workplaces.
Additional information
This course has no formal entry requirements.Participants are normally members of, or nominees to, the organisation's Emergency Planning Committee, or hold a role with responsibility for emergency planning (such as facility management or WHS).
Participants should:
• wear footwear appropriate to your facility and suitable for the level of activity involved in any practical exercises;
• have sufficient English language, literacy and numeracy skills to follow instructions, take part in activities and understand emergency procedures.Attendance and completion:
Participants must sign on via the QR code at the start of each session so attendance can be captured. Anyone leaving a session before it is complete will be deemed not to have completed the course and excluded from final attendance records.
No formal assessment is required for this course. An informal written assessment is given at the end of the session to confirm understanding of the key content.
On-site sessions are practical, site-specific, and tailored to your facility's emergency procedures and evacuation diagrams.
Training facility sessions accommodate groups of up to 20 participants. Group sizes and session durations are listed in the course details above.
FERST is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment for all participants. If you have any questions, feedback, or wish to raise a concern, contact us at hello@ferst.training or call 1300 333 778.
