EXERCISE PLANNING

Exercise Planning Basic (1 day)

Does your organization have an emergency response plan? Do you know how the emergency response plan is supposed to work? When was it last tested? How was it tested? Were you happy with the results?

Testing your emergency response plan can often be an intimidating task. You may be asked to run an exercise that validates the organizations emergency response plan, but in the process you may be asking yourself some bigger questions.

What type of exercise should I run? What kind of scenario do I set up? What resources do I need? How much work is involved? Can anyone get injured? Will my organization learn anything or will my work be a waste of time?

Take ERMC's Exercise Planning - Basic and we'll teach you how to confidently evaluate your emergency response plan to get positive results.

This interactive, one-day workshop is designed to answer questions that may arise when you need to test your emergency response plan. We will introduce you to various methods of testing emergency response plans such as tabletops, drills and simulations. The workshop emphasizes the use of a tabletop exercise to validate the usefulness of an emergency response plan.

The workshop will cover how to set objectives, select a planning team, open lines of communications with stakeholders, and examine resource requirements. You'll also learn how to select a scenario, develop pre-exercise requirements, and create exercise papers.

At the end of the day, we'll go through a tabletop exercise with workshop participants to demonstrate the merits of proper planning. Once you have completed this training workshop, you will be able to design a basic tabletop to validate the effectiveness of your own plan.

When you return to your workplace, you can better train your employees and strengthen your mutual-aid partnerships to deal any unpredictable events in your organization and community.

Course loading is 10 persons per session.
Cost: For more information on pricing please contact us.

~ COURSE TIMETABLE ~
Exercise Planning Basic
ITEM
TIME
SUBJECT
1
0800 - 0815
 Introduction/ General
2
0815 - 0845
 How to set Exercise Objectives
3
0845 - 0915
 What is the Planning Group and what does it do?
4
0915 - 0945
 How to choose a scenario.
5
0945 - 1015
 Resource requirements (Internal and external).
6
1015 - 1030
 COFFEE BREAK
7
1015 -1145
 Communications from the planning to completion of the exercise. Who must you communicate with and why.
8
1145 - 1245
 LUNCH
9
1245 - 1345
 Preparation of the exercise papers.
10
1345 - 1400
 Pre-exercise requirements.
11
1400 - 1415
 Non-standard exercises.
12
1415 - 1515
 Preparation of a Tabletop Exercise.
13
1515 - 1615
 Presentation of the Tabletop Exercise.
14
1615 - 1630
Closing and wrap-up.

Exercise Planning Advanced - Tabletops (2 days)

The lessons from ERMC's Exercise Planning - Basic workshop will be applied and expanded upon in this two-day course. Participants will develop and conduct tabletop exercises that will be discussed and critiqued by other members in the workshop.

Afterwards, you will develop and conduct up to six tabletop exercises that will be discussed and critiqued by the other participants. This workshop is designed to give you confidence to plan and execute different tabletop exercises for your organization.

Once you have completed this workshop, you will be able to go back to your organization and design more advanced tabletop exercises to validate the contents of your own emergency response plan.

Course loading is 10 persons per session.
Cost: For more information on pricing please contact us.

~ COURSE TIMETABLE ~
Exercise Planning Advanced - Table tops
Day 1
ITEM
TIME
SUBJECT
1
0800 - 0815
 Introduction / General
2
0815 - 0845
 Setting Exercise Objectives
3
0845 - 0915
 What is a Tabletop Exercise? When do you use a Tabletop Exercise?
4
0915 - 0945
 Selecting a Scenario
5
0945 - 1000
 COFFEE BREAK
6
1000 - 1045
 Developing of Tabletop Exercise No. 1
7
1045 - 1145
 Presenting Tabletop Exercise No. 1
8
1145 - 1245
 LUNCH
9
1245 - 1330
 Developing of Tabletop Exercise No. 2
10
1330 - 1430
 Presenting Tabletop Exercise No. 2
11
1430 - 1445
 COFFEE BREAK
12
1445 - 1530
 Developing of Tabletop Exercise No. 3
13
1530 - 1615
 Presenting Tabletop Exercise No. 3
14
1615 - 1630
 Questions and Answers

Day 2
ITEM
TIME
SUBJECT
1
0800 - 0830
Review of Day 1 lesson
2
0830 - 0915
Presenting Tabletop Exercise No.
3
0915 - 1000
Development of Tabletop Exercise No. 4
4
1000 - 1015
COFFEE BREAK
5
1015 - 1100
Presentation Tabletop Exercise No. 4
6
1100 - 1145
Development of Tabletop Exercise No. 5
7
1145 - 1245
LUNCH
8
1245 - 1330
Presentation of Tabletop Exercise No. 5
9
1330 - 1415
Development of Tabletop Exercise No. 6
10
1415 - 1500
Presentation Tabletop Exercise No. 6
11
1500 - 1515
COFFEE BREAK
12
1515 - 1600
Questions and Answers / Closing and debrief

Exercise Planning Advanced - Drills (3 days)

Planning and running a disaster exercise can be and often is an intimidating task.

This is the third and final workshop in ERMC's Exercise Planning Series. The workshop is interactive. You will be supplying many of the answers based on your own experience. Using the theories and concepts that were learned in the Exercise Planning Basic and Advanced Table Tops, the participants will explore the different types of drills during this interactive three day workshop.

Participants will be guided through the process of designing and conducting drills and will have the opportunity to act out various roles in a simulated Emergency Operations Centre. Once completed, the participants will have an in-depth understanding of how to test their own emergency response plans through the use of specialized drills.

Course loading is 10 persons per session.
Cost: For more information on pricing please contact us.

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