Overview: By thoughtful use of HSEEP, there is an increasingly wide range of activities which make up discussion-based and operations-based exercises. This means that NIMS compliant organizations can utilize the HSEEP to achieve credit for their efforts without having to conduct massive or expensive exercises. Any exercise should be developed, executed, and evaluated to address the priorities established by an organization’s leaders. In most cases these are based their local Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (HVA), internal capability assessments and the results from previous exercises and real-world events.
Accordingly, these priorities guide the design and development of individual exercises, as planners identify exercise objectives and align them to core capabilities1 In this way, the use of HSEEP—in line with the National Preparedness Goal and the National Preparedness System—supports efforts across the whole community that improve our national capacity to build, sustain, and deliver core capabilities. for evaluation during the exercise.
Exercise evaluation assesses the ability to meet exercise objectives and capabilities by documenting strengths, areas for improvement, core capability performance, and corrective actions in an After-Action Report/Improvement Plan (AAR/IP). Through improvement planning,
organizations take the corrective actions needed to improve plans, build and sustain capabilities, and maintain readiness.
Target Audience: All organizations, businesses and agencies,
Duration: Exercises may range from a 4 hour table-top discussion to an exercise lasting over a number of days. It is all based upon the clients needs and exercise objectives.
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