Emergency Response Planning and Drills
A plan built from scenarios, then tested until it fails somewhere useful
Covers on site and off site emergency planning, scenario selection, resource and role definition, and the drill programme that exposes weakness before an event does. Includes simulator based and tabletop exercise design with objective evaluation.
This course sits alongside our Emergency Response Planning consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Scenario basis
- Selecting planning scenarios from the hazard and risk assessment
- Escalation pathways and the worst credible case
- Consequence footprints that define the affected area
- Off site interface and the information authorities need
Plan content
- Roles, authority and succession when the named person is absent
- Notification, alarm and escalation criteria
- Muster, evacuation, shelter in place and the decision between them
- Resources, mutual aid and external agency interface
Drill and exercise design
- Objective setting so an exercise tests something specific
- Tabletop, functional and full scale exercises and what each is for
- Simulator based training for control room response
- Injects, controllers and keeping an exercise realistic
Evaluation and improvement
- Observing against defined objectives rather than general impression
- Debrief technique that surfaces problems
- Turning findings into plan revisions that actually happen
- Exercise frequency and progression over a cycle
What you receive
- An emergency response plan template
- Scenario packs with injects for tabletop and functional exercises
- An exercise evaluation form tied to objectives
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Plans are built for the scenarios your hazards actually produce
- Roles work when the named individual is on leave
- Exercises test something specific and produce findings
- Findings change the plan rather than being recorded and forgotten
Standards and references
We teach Emergency Response Planning and Drills against OSHA 29 CFR 1910.38 and 1910.119 paragraph n and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Emergency Response Planning and Drills for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
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