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