Emergency Management and Civil Protection Exercises
How effective is your emergency management plan? Are people familiar with it? Have staff or procedures changed? Is it still current or is it sitting on the shelf? How prepared are your people and teams for the pressure of an emergency situation? To ensure your emergency management or continuity plan works in the face of reality, it must be rehearsed regularly through well designed and executed exercises. Steelhenge is experienced in the delivery of multi agency civil protection exercises at local, regional and national levels. Our staff understand the complexities and the differing pressures of this environment. From Strategic Coordinating Groups to Tactical Command, we can offer many different options from desktop to full simulations. Emergency management and civil protection exercises will be backed by systems which can replicate the complexity of multiple organisations, systems and communications across the operational, tactical and strategic tiers. Emergency management and civil protection exercises may be delivered as individual events to meet a specific management objective or as part of a developmental programme designed to increase your emergency preparedness on a continuous basis.  We have designed, planned and delivered successful exercises time and again for many different organisations. Our exercise staff are experts with many years emergency exercise delivery experience. To run an effective exercise is a detailed and complex activity which cannot be underestimated. Working with us you can be confident that your exercise will achieve its objectives.
All our emergency management and civil protection exercises are designed to be developmental in nature, not as a test that can be failed. Our expertise enables us to apply or reduce pressure as required as the exercise unfolds, allowing staff to develop and gain confidence in their roles. The nature and scale of the exercise proposed will be based on your needs, the complexity of your organisation and the maturity of your emergency management preparation. Emergency Management and Civil Protection Exercise Options Exercises offered range from simple plan walk-throughs and table top exercises to more resource-intensive full simulation multi-agency exercises. Emergency managment and civil protection exercise options
|  | - Emergency management and civil protection plan walk-throughs
- Scenario based workshops
- Table top exercises ((TTX) also known as desk top exercises)
| | - Command Post Exercises (CPX)
- Full Simulation Exercises (SIMEX)
- Live Exercises (LIVEX)
| | | | Our methodology carries you through from the agreement of objectives to delivery of the post-exercise report (PXR) and recommendations for refinement of plans, training needs of staff and next level of exercise. We prepare the exercise architecture, design the scenario and plans, work on the supporting documentation and preparation of “players”, observers, umpires and supporting staff as well as delivering the event on the day and gathering feedback through a ‘hot-wash-up’. Emergency Management and Civil Protection Exercise Observers This process is supported by our own excellent team of impartial observers who watch the team(s) work and gather and summarise data on every aspect of the crisis performance. Steelhenge will also supply experienced, impartial observers to support your exercises. Virtual News Network Many of our exercises are supported by real-time media play. This service ranges from supply of media clips, a single journalist with – or without - a camera through to complete media teams with a mobile studio, live reporting and interviewing and transfer to TV or PC feeds across the exercise. Linked to this we can run a virtual news network (VNN) based around a secure website replicating the sort of feed to be experienced through 24-hour news stations such as Sky News, BBC News 24 or CNN. Exercise Network Solutions Some clients like to replicate their organisation’s IT network without the risk of leakage of exercise play into their real system. To achieve this, Steelhenge will build a Local Area Network (LAN) using hardware which we provide specifically for the event. This carries all traffic that a normal network would within a safe and secure environment. The LAN also links to our exercise management tool (EMT) which allows us to build an e-mail range of exercise play both before the event to help create the scenario and during the exercise in accordance with a Main Events List. The EMT captures responses and reactions which helps in post-exercise review. This is a bespoke piece of software designed by Steelhenge to meet our clients’ requirements.
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