IAEA Training in Emergency Preparedness and Response
Standard Exercise Briefing
Work Session (Drill)Work Session (Drill)
Module WS-014Module WS-014
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Objectives
• Describe the IAEA standard exercise manual
• Make yourself familiar with the conduct of a
pre-exercise briefing
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How
• Please follow the briefing using the standard exercise manual
• This briefing is the equivalent of the briefing for controllers and evaluators
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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
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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
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Nature of This Exercise
• Three phases• Phase 1: on-scene response
• Phase 2: hospital emergency response
• Phase 3: long term medical issues
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Exercise Specifications
• Objectives (see manual)
• Participation (see manual)
• Constraints (see manual)
• Our exercise will be limited to
phases 1 and 2, conducted in sequence
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Schedule
• Today• Organization
• Review of roles
• Review of needs (logistics arrangements)
• Assignment of tasks
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Schedule (Cont’d)
• Tomorrow morning• Set up of scene
• Set up of simulated casualties
• Selection of players
• Briefing of players
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Scenario
• See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise
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Start State
• See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Controllers andEvaluators Instructions
• See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise
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Evaluation Objectives and Criteria
• See Exercise Manual on Radiological Emergency Response Exercise
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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
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Selection of controllers and players
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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 becauseof the reduced availability of personnel
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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
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Players
• Police (3)
• Ambulance (2)
• Radiation specialist (1)
• Hospital doctors (2) - phase 2
• Hospital nurses (2) - phase 2
Get organized and review your rolesand procedures