WORKSHOPS AND EXERCISES
TAILORED EXERCISES
Train like you play! At REST, we strive to provide the most realistic experiences for your personnel for any form of Radiation Emergency. Imagine the value of operating inside extremely dangerous levels of radiation, but safely. That is the REST Experience!
Tabletop Exercises
A discussion-based and cutting-edge virtual simulation exercise designed to test an agency’s policies and procedures prior to conducting larger evolutions.
Tabletop Exercise
Audience: Command Staff, Mid-Line Supervisors and Emergency Planners
Minimum Planning Time: 3 months
A Tabletop Exercise is a customized, no-fault operation to evaluate the application of new policies and procedures or test the efficacy of existing ones. The staff at REST use a combination of a ‘formal’ tabletop exercise and incorporate new software that allows role players in the exercise to physically control the outcome while receiving radiation dose rate readings their virtual character is receiving on a PRD.
Practical Drills
An operations-based exercise employed to validate one or more operations or functions of an agency’s radiation emergency response plan.
Practical Drills
Audience: All First Responders, First Receivers and Emergency Planners
Minimum Planning Time: 4 months
The staff at REST will work with the requesting agency to either develop a series of drills or assist them with executing drills of their own design. As an example, your crews will have the ability to operate in an environment where a functioning PRD will be displaying dose rates of 250+ R/Hr, as would be possible during a radioactive weapon attack. Each drill will be operated independently from the others, allowing for immediate feedback. The requesting agency will be invitied to participate in an After-Action Meeting and will receive a written After Action Report from REST staff.
Functional Exercise
An operations-based exercise designed to test and evaluate an agency’s radioactive emergency response capabilities and functions while in a realistic, real-time environment. These exercises can be isolated to a single building or expanded to a wide area operation as large as one square mile.
Functional Exercise
Audience: All First Responders, First Receivers and Emergency Planners
Minimum Planning Time: 6 months
These functional exercises are fully customizable to the requesting agency. The staff at REST, using a wide array of equipment, can create an ultra-realistic simulation of any type of radiation emergency you would like to evaluate your staff on. Participants will be using functioning radiation detection meters that allow them to use provide real-time, accurate updates to the IC, even over large distances. These exercises can be as small as a vehicle stop and static, or they can simulate a wide area contamination event that is expanding out to one square mile in size based on the current weather conditions and ground depositions. These exercises will be planned, executed and evaluated based on DHS HSEEP principles.
Full Scale Exercise
An operations-based exercise that is typically the most complex and resource-intensive of the exercise types and often involves multiple agencies, jurisdictions/organizations, and real-time movement of resources. A minimum of one year of planning time is required for a Functional Exercise, and will include a minimum of six planning meetings, two of which will be site visits.
Full Scale Exercise
Audience: All regional public safety agencies, healthcare systems, city managers and planners, federal agencies and community stakeholders.
Minimum Planning Time: 12+ months
A Full Scale Exercise is the true test of a region’s ability to respond to a large radiation emergency event. Public safety agencies will often use this type of exercise prior to a large-scale event occurring in their region to test their ability to respond to varying emergencies. These events require meticulous planning and logistics to accomplish. The staff at REST will provide an ultra-realistic emergency based on the region’s requests and will endeavor to have as little artificiality as safety will allow. We look forward to assisting you with the execution of such an important process.