Part 2 of the Technician Safety / OHS trackIn authoring · pre-pilot

EV & Battery Emergency Response (Thermal Runaway)

Respond safely to an EV/battery emergency — recognise the early signs of thermal runaway, isolate and evacuate, choose the right (and avoid the wrong) intervention, manage crash-damaged and submerged HV packs, and hand over cleanly to the fire service.

The emergency playbook for when an EV high-voltage battery goes wrong in or around your workshop. Part of the 'Technician Safety / OHS Track' and building directly on the 'EV High-Voltage Safety & Lockout/Tagout' course, it takes the technician from routine isolation work into the chaos of a venting, burning, or crash-damaged Li-ion pack. Across one Engage-Share-Practice-Perform flow learners feel why thermal runaway is different, learn the recognise-isolate-evacuate-handover framework and the battery-fire facts that overturn normal firefighting instinct, then prove judgement under consequence on real 2026 scenarios — a venting pack on the lift, a crash arrival, a flooded EV — before passing the knowledge gate, logging the geofenced in-person drill, and returning the countersigned emergency-response checklist.

47 min·17 learning objects·intermediate·For: Service technicians, body-shop & workshop staff, fleet maintenance crews, recovery operators, and workshop OHS officers

VideoQuestionFlash cardVideo quizOrderingShort answerAssessment quizFormAttendanceDocument return

How the program runs — four phases.

Engage

See what a battery in thermal runaway actually does — self-sustaining, hard to cool, prone to reignition — then privately rate how ready you are to respond before it happens to you.

The fire that makes its own oxygenVideo
Before we start: how ready are you for the bad day?Question

Learn the framework: the chemistry and warning signs of thermal runaway, why normal firefighting instinct fails, and the recognise-isolate-evacuate-handover backbone you'll soon perform under pressure.

Thermal runaway: what it is and how it warns youVideo
The response backbone — recognise, isolate, evacuate, hand overVideo
Read the warning signs — name each oneFlash card
The response drumbeat — recall the backboneFlash card

Practice

Apply the framework under consequence: read the earliest warning sign, order the venting-pack response, decide on a crash arrival, handle a flooded EV, and defend the 'let it burn at distance' call in writing.

Catch stage one: what's the first sign?Video quiz
Sequence the venting-pack responseOrdering
The crash arrival: what do you do with it?Video quiz
Order the flooded-EV emergency stepsOrdering
Defend 'let it burn at distance' to the bossShort answer
Emergency recall — vent, crash, flood, reigniteFlash card

Perform

Prove it: write the multi-vehicle thermal-runaway decision under pressure, pass the knowledge gate, check in to the geofenced in-person drill, log the supervised response run, and return the countersigned emergency-response checklist.

Write the multi-vehicle runaway decisionShort answer
EV battery emergency response knowledge gateAssessment quiz
Check in to the in-person emergency drillAttendance
Log your supervised response runForm
Return your signed emergency-response checklistDocument return

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EV High-Voltage Safety & Lockout/Tagout for Service Technicians

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