South Australian Consolidated Regulations South Australian Consolidated Regulations19—Keeping, maintaining and testing an emergency management plan
(1) A rail transport
operator must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that all employees
of the operator, and all contractors engaged by the operator, who may be
required to implement any emergency response procedures in the emergency
management plan—
(a) are
provided with information about the relevant elements of the plan; and
(b) are
able to do anything that may be required of them under the plan.
(2) The operator must
test the emergency management plan, or elements of the plan, to ensure that
the plan remains effective—
(a) at
the intervals set out in the plan; and
(b)
after any significant changes are made to the plan.
(3) In preparing an
emergency management plan, the operator must, if it is reasonably practicable
to do so, determine intervals for the purposes of subregulation (2)(a) in
conjunction with the emergency services.
(4) When testing the
emergency management plan, or elements of the plan, the operator must, so far
as is reasonably practicable, arrange for participation in the testing by the
relevant emergency services.
(5) The operator must
ensure that in-house exercises to test the emergency management plan are
undertaken as often as is necessary, in the opinion of the operator, to ensure
that the plan will be properly implemented should an emergency arise.
(6) A rail transport
operator must ensure that the emergency management plan is comprehensible, and
is readily accessible at all times, to—
(a) all
employees of the operator, and all contractors engaged by the operator, who
may be required to implement any emergency response procedures in the plan;
and
(b) all
other rail transport operators who may be affected by the plan; and
(c) any
person or body referred to in regulation 17(1)(c); and
(d)
emergency services.