Emergency and Disaster Exercises: A Practitioner's Guide to Exercise Design and Development, Conduct, Evaluation, and Improvement Planning
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
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Emergencies and disasters can happen at any time and often without warning. While emergencies are often somewhat limited in scope and intensity, they can also be catastrophic in nature with far-reaching impacts on a national and international level. Exercises represent a key element of preparedness that communities and organizations should adopt to ensure they are prepared to respond to the litany of threats they face.
Exercises have been a foundational component of emergency management for decades, yet many agencies and organizations lack the level of exercise planning expertise necessary to implement a comprehensive exercise program. As a result, these agencies and organizations rarely achieve optimal results when conducting exercises as the phases of an exercise are often streamlined due to the lack of an in-depth understanding of the exercise planning process.
By marrying decades of real-world response and exercise planning experience, Price and Hicks, both Master Exercise Practitioners, offer an in-depth and unique perspective on exercise design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning. As such, this textbook takes a holistic approach to the exercise planning process by providing
- insight into the need for aa systematic exercise doctrine and methodology
- the rationale for a comprehensive exercise program
- a look at exercise design and conduct considerations, as well as pitfalls
- a tried and true eight-step exercise planning process
- best practices for exercise control and simulation
- the reasoning and best practices for implementing a systematic exercise evaluation process and
- a compendium of exercise job aids to assist exercise practitioners as they navigate the different, yet interconnected, phases of an exercise
To encourage not only comprehension but also retention knowledge, a pedagogical approach to the chapters encompasses an area of focus, what you will learn, outcomes, a chapter narrative, key terms, review questions, and an application activity. To assist those who wish to adopt this text in the classroom, PowerPoint slides, and support materials are available for download via an instructor support website. Designed for use both in the classroom and in the field by exercise planning practitioners, this textbook offers an unparalleled and unique structure to assist with the exercise design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning processes. Therefore, this textbook is an absolute must-have resource for homeland security, emergency/disaster management, crisis management, and public administration curriculums in higher education, as well as for exercise planning teams and practitioners.
Preface
About the Authors
Testimonials
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Exercise Design
CHAPTER 2 Systematic Exercise Doctrine and Methodology
CHAPTER 3 Comprehensive Exercise Program
CHAPTER 4 Exercise Design Steps
CHAPTER 5 Exercise Design Considerations and Pitfalls
CHAPTER 6 Exercise Conduct Considerations
CHAPTER 7 Exercise Control and Simulation
CHAPTER 8 Systematic Exercise Evaluation Process
CHAPTER 9 Conclusion
APPENDIX A Job Aids
Glossary
Index
Darren E. Price, MA, MEP, is an adjunct professor at Idaho State University and Mount Vernon Nazarene University, having previously served in the same capacity at Ohio Christian University. Marrying academia with real-world practitioner experience, Darren retired from public service in September 2020 after 34 + years of government service, including nearly 20 years with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency as a regional operations supervisor and, prior to that, the agency's exercise program manager. Darren has served on numerous national-level preparedness exercise committees, addressing topics such as the National Standard Exercise Curriculum and providing policy input into the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program.
Darren has presented on various topics at numerous homeland security and emergency management conferences across the United States and at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Specialist’s Meeting. In addition, he has published articles related to homeland security and emergency management for the International Association of Emergency Managers and the Domestic Preparedness Journal.
Darren has a Master of Arts degree in Security Studies from the Naval Post-graduate School, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (with concentrations in leadership and criminal justice) from Ohio Christian University, and is a nationally recognized expert in exercise design/development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning. In 2004, Darren earned the certificate title of MEP from FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute, where he also serves as an adjunct instructor. Darren is a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served as an intelligence analyst in the United States and Germany.
Dr. Thad D. Hicks, CEM, MEP, currently serves as a professor of Emergency and Criminal Justice at Mount Vernon Nazarene University (MVNU) in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In addition, he directs MVNU’s Graduate and Professional Studies Public Administration Program.
Before his time at MVNU, Thad designed and directed the Emergency Management Program at Ohio Christian University. Thad has many years of experience working with non-governmental organizations. He previously served as the Director of Emergency Disaster Services at The Salvation Army along the U.S. Gulf Coast where he was responsible for all Salvation Army emergency and disaster relief operations in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Thad continues to serve The Salvation Army as their state liaison to the Ohio Emergency Management Agency and the State of Ohio Emergency Operations Center.
Thad currently sits on the editorial board for multiple peer-reviewed academic journals in the emergency management field and previously served as the editor-in-chief of two quarterly academic journals, Trauma Healing Journal and Healing Ministry Journal , both focusing on secondary emotional trauma among first responders and emergency personnel.
Thad is a certified emergency manager (CEM), a MEP, and a certified police officer in the state of Ohio. He has earned an M.A. in Conflict Transformation with a concentration in Restorative Justice and a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies.