Training & Exercises
Prepare Your Organization
Staff and partner agencies that may support an activated Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) / Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) benefit from function-specific training, professional development opportunities, and exercises that progressively enhance their comprehension and confidence for true events. Leading with integrity, Paratus Management offers a collaborative approach that puts your team at ease while learning and adapting to new concepts and processes, improving operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Training
Training sessions deliver:
- Awareness: Understanding of concepts, language, and goals
- Functional Learning: Specific tasks and processes conducted by teams
- Complexity and Dexterity: Increasing knowledge and hands-on learning
- Opportunity: Bringing together staff and agencies that normally do not work together yet may interact and support each other during major interruptions
- Site: Activities conducted at an incident by response personnel and teams
- Site-Support: Strategic and coordination priorities established at department and organizational levels to support site activities
- Compliance and Challenges: Legilative, contractual and professional standards for specific disciplines should be considered prior to an interruption; training environments provide a safe space for questions, dialogue and solutions to manifest
Exercises
An exercise is a simulation of an interruption, situation, or emergency event, developed through a formal process, which uses discussion and/or the actual deployment of personnel and resources for training purposes and to validate policies, plans, capabilities, and procedures.
The types of exercises chosen are influenced by the agencies involved and the objectives set. For each exercise conducted, a clear set of goals with objectives are created that describe the desired outcome, so that success can be measured.
Discussion-based exercises include:
- Seminars – common understanding of a topic
- Workshops – sharing and recording ideas
- Tabletop exercises (TTX) – scenario-based facilitated discussion
- Immersive simulations or games – interactive scenarios
Operations-based exercises include:
- Drills – validates single function or operational task
- Functional (FX) – validates multiple functions, single site
- Full-scale exercises (FSX) – validates multiple functions, often at multiple sites, engaging multiple agencies