Review of Emergency Management Exercises (Author: Regina Phelps)

For the growing number of individuals charged with ensuring effective business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management plans, conducting an ineffective exercise constitutes a lost opportunity and a potential major setback to your planning efforts. Well-executed exercises are simply the best and only viable approach. Any type of planner will welcome this hands-on guide that is clearly the bridge to getting the most out of emergency management exercises.Outlining the types of exercises used by organizations to test plans, the bulk of Emergency Management Exercises fleshes out how to run—end to end—the three most common types; Orientation, Tabletop and Functional. It’s…