A group of EPA field officers and staff members were recently reminded of the perils of summer with the probability of confronting the threat of bushfires being more likely than most had imagined.
Although most of us who live and work in Adelaide or its suburbs are complacent with bushfires the reality is that at some point during the bushfire danger season that we will visit or travel through a high bushfire risk area.
Oshanna Alexander from the CFS Community Engagement Unit who recently conducted a bushfire safety workshop for EPA staff said irrespective of where anyone lives or works, everyone should have a plan to respond to a bushfire.
The workshop presented scenarios to determine risk assessments of workplace procedures and practices through bushfire emergency management planning.
This included an exercise that took participants through a bushfire scenario with its intensity and level of threat being rapidly escalated and thinking through procedures and taking steps that could potentially be life-saving.