TABLETOP EXERCISE

Hazard: Protection and resilience for critical infrastructure

Location: Local and Regional

Duration:  40-60 minutes

Capabilities Exercised:

• Incident command
• Protection and resilience setup
• Size-up

Exercise staff roles:

Highlighting the existing plans, procedures and policies

 Disseminate the personnel with expected or current capabilities

Focusing on planned policy oriented issues

Involving simulated emergency conditions

Mobilizing the key resources, networks and/or equipments

Committing the personnel, typically over an extended duration

Serve as a “dress rehearsals” so as to be in the position of testing how the entities would manage the situation

Scenario

The local and regional infrastructure owners have been activated to evaluate the measures which have been used in protecting and managing critical infrastructure. All the members have arrived at the pre-designed convention point.

For exercise Staff synopsis

This tabletop exercise gives the whole team the capacity of discussing all the process which would be used in setting up the command post as well as prioritizing how to a number of damaged infrastructure.  This will be based on all that which is acknowledged for this situation and the capabilities of the team. Additional participants will vary depending on the topic of discussion. Moreover, from outside the organization, public and private sector representation ought to be considered.