Course Overview:
This unit addresses the competence required to conduct and assess incident exercises. The person would be engaged in the construction of scenarios that approximate incident situations and exercises in dealing with those incidents.
In a typical scenario the person would be a member of the incident room team and would be responsible for ensuring that both scheduled and unscheduled incident exercises took place. Results of these exercises would provide essential input into the audit and evaluation of incident preparedness of the facility. However, a proper post-exercise debrief is critical, as the exercise likewise has a strong educative value that promotes awareness and understanding among participants.
Key aspects of the competence include:
- establishing key objectives and strategic outcomes from incident exercises
- improving the organisation’s level of preparedness should an incident occur
- improving the ability of personnel to respond appropriately and safely during an incident
The person may:
- communicate extensively both inside and outside the organisation
- establish and support mechanisms for the design and conducting of incident exercises
- review and evaluate the soundness of incident response plans and management systems.
Generally the person would be an incident coordinator, manager or technical specialist and be part of an incident response team during the incident. They may have an ongoing role for managing the training and incident exercise system.
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