Little Things Mean a Lot: The Value of Micro Mock Disaster Exercises

This article first appeared at MHA Consulting. Miniature mock disaster exercises are a small thing that can make a big difference in terms of an organization’s preparedness for emergencies. In today’s post, we’ll lay out the benefits of such micro exercises and discuss how to organize and conduct them. The typical mock-disaster exercise is a complex understanding that must be planned far in advance and requires a lot of hours from a lot of people. These are the type of exercises I focused on in my two most recent blog posts, one on planning mock disaster exercises and one on facilitating them. Such…