Description

The fundamentals course has been developed to assist organisations to practice and test internal capability and capacity and prepare for business as usual situations or incidents, crises and emergencies. Using current national exercise principals and standards, this course incorporates the latest approaches and methods to build effective and dynamic exercise programs to maintain and enhance preparedness and readiness.

The course is highly interactive and focuses on the unique ‘D-Cycle’, an exercise development system designed to simplify the process and guide exercise practitioners.
During this course you will be trained, supported and guided to develop your own exercise plan to take back to your workplace for implementation and will receive your own workbook that you will use during the course and take with you for future reference and continued learning.

What you can expect to learn

Fundamental principles of exercise management
How to design, develop and deliver small to medium scale discussion and functional/deployment exercises using the D-Cycle
Fundamentals of evaluation, validation and resolution of the exercise outcomes and results

Target Audience

This course is tailored to businesses and organisations seeking to, or required to, undertake exercise activities to prepare for, respond to and recover from any incident, crisis or emergency situation. Participants who would benefit from attendance include, but are not limited to:

Emergency Organisation Control members
Managers and staff who have training, compliance, response or recovery responsibilities
Members of Incident, Crisis and Emergency Management Teams
Security and Risk Managers and team members
Members of Human Resources, Communication and Business Continuity Departments
Members of Executive/ Senior Leadership teams
Warden teams
Companies, organisations and agencies that have an obligation to conduct exercises.
Emergency Responders
Business continuity management personnel and teams