IAEA Training in Emergency Preparedness and Response Standard Exercise Briefing Work Session (Drill) Module WS-014

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing2 Objectives Describe the IAEA standard exercise manual Make yourself familiar with the conduct of a pre-exercise briefing

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing3 How Please follow the briefing using the standard exercise manual This briefing is the equivalent of the briefing for controllers and evaluators

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing4 Background Emergencies are rare but they happen Radiological emergencies represent the greatest risk Coordination between emergency services, radiation specialists and the medical community is most challenging

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing5 General Purpose of Exercises The purpose of an exercise is to improve the response capability by: Identifying strengths and weaknesses Revealing ways in which the response can be improved

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing6 Nature of This Exercise Three phases Phase 1: on-scene response Phase 2: hospital emergency response Phase 3: long term medical issues

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing7 Exercise Specifications Objectives (see manual) Participation (see manual) Constraints (see manual) Our exercise will be limited to phases 1 and 2, conducted in sequence

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing8 Schedule Today Organization Review of roles Review of needs (logistics arrangements) Assignment of tasks

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing9 Schedule (Cont’d) Tomorrow morning Set up of scene Set up of simulated casualties Selection of players Briefing of players

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing10 Scenario See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing11 Start State See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing12 Scene Setup See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise For this exercise, we will use a simplified scene setup Two vehicles Boxes to simulate debris No live source Same number of casualties Same contamination pattern

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing13 Master Events List See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise Go through line by line Briefly explain the phase 3 tabletop But we will not conduct this part of the exercise

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing14 Important Note for the Control of Scene Personnel Tag all simulated victims and witnesses Important for phase 2 Tag responders as they arrive at the scene R-1 to R-5 are exposed and contaminated for phase 2 Rest are non-contaminated unless they stepped into the contaminated area Not involved in phase 2

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing15 Data Review exercise data from the manual Note that radiation data needs to be customized based on the exact configuration of the simulated emergency scene

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing16 Exercise Options Focus on on-scene response (see manual) Focus on short-term medical response (see manual) Focus on long term medical issues (see manual) Changes in the number of patients (see manual)

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing17 Controllers and Evaluators Instructions See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing18 Evaluation Objectives and Criteria See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing19 Dry Run (Practice) We will now go through the entire scenario line by line The chief controller will ask the controllers what they do at every step of the exercise process, starting with the pre-exercise preparation

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing20 Selection of controllers and players

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing21 Select Controllers (Reduced Number) Chief controller: instructor Chief evaluator Site controller/evaluator Radiation 1 controller First response controller/evaluator Medical 1 controller D-1 D-2 C-1 W-1 W-2 Note: controllers will also be evaluators because of the reduced availability of personnel

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing22 Review Controllers, review your roles and instructions Site controller Prepare material for the scene Brief victims and prepare them Radiation 1 controller Customize radiation data at the scene Distribute to other controllers

WS-014: Standard Exercise Briefing23 Players Police (3) Ambulance (2) Radiation specialist (1) Hospital doctors (2) - phase 2 Hospital nurses (2) - phase 2 Get organized and review your roles and procedures