ABSTRACT
Modeling/Simulation for the Drill Tabletop exercises rely very heavily on modeling or simulation and are generally designed to test the supervisors. Hand-on drills share some of these same traits, but also involve a great number of rank and ¤le personnel. As with tabletop scenarios, the practical or hands-on training needs to be planned well in advance of the
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formal training. Since this drill requires additional personnel, the cost factor to execute the drill will be signi¤cantly higher. Planners and administrators must be aware of this prior to the start of the drill and expected costs, or cost analysis projections need to be developed and approved. ese projections will be made after the very initial stages of planning are completed. e ¤rst decision will be to decide whether an incident or an event response will be contemplated. Again, for our purposes, an incident will be chosen, but there will be an added twist. e incident to be drilled will take place during a scheduled event. is will test the ability of responders to address contingency plans, to think on their feet, and to recognize and react to certain indicators. After the incident is chosen, as with the tabletop scenario, we must determine which response partners of the drilling agency will be invited to assist in the mitigation. Mutual aid responders, automatic aid responders, county, state, and federal responders should be considered as well. Moderators and observers, as explained in Chapter 12, will need to be selected, using the previously discussed criteria. Incident command structures need to be in place, and a date, time, and location of the drill need to be chosen. e drill can then be conducted. After the termination, a review date needs to be chosen and recommendations need to be considered and activated. Once those steps are completed, policies and procedures, along with annexes need to be amended and updated as determined by the reviewing policy-making authorities.
