Emergency Exercises

Healthcare facilities must test their emergency plan twice annually in response to an actual event of planned exercise. If the facility offers emergency services or participates as a community emergency receiving station, one of the two drills must be an exercise with the influx of patients or simulated patients. 

The exercise should evaluate performance if the facility can t get support from community resources. Evaluate all exercises to determine performance and opportunities for improvement. Ensure that the six critical areas listed later are properly monitored. Use a multidisciplinary evaluation process that includes administration, clinical professionals, and support personnel. Communicate strengths and weaknesses to the improvement team. Consider every worker, visitor, or patient as someone needing training, education, or helpful information. Focus on execution, training deficiencies, and problem areas. 

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April 11. 2000 A RDC Investigation Report prepared April 18, 2000 stated that, during an emergency exercise, medical personnel on JACADS were... 

Training. Emergency exercises and the development of a database of operational scenarios provide the best means for honing the toolkit expert s understanding of the applicability of models. 

How to plan and conduct four types of community emergency exercises. 

Number of emergency exercises on schedule and total staff time involved... 

Appendix 12E Visit to Hunterston W Nuclear Power Station to attend an Emergency Exercise... 

A visit to Hunterston was made on 11-12 May 1987 by Norman Worley and Glynne Lewis on behalf of the Watt Committee Working Group on the Chernobyl Accident and its Implications. The attendance at the emergency exercise on 12 May was by the kind permission of the South of Scotland Electricity Board. 

Communications can be connected in parallel to the real station systems, allowing the simulator to be used in place of the real control room during emergency exercises. 

Tests and emergency exercises are carried out regularly at all nuclear stations throughout the United Kingdom. The Watt Committee on Energy attended the exercise at Hunterston in order to see how such operations are conducted. 

AR254 Second international nuclear emergency exercise INEX 2 Final report of the Canadian regional exercise (Protection radiologique Deuxieme exercice international d urgence INEX 2 Rapport final sur I exercice regional canadien). Radiation Protection, 04 September 2001. 

Objectives for emergency exercises to test effectiveness of plan and focus post-exercise reviews. 

This capability has provided efficiait transmission of data during certain emergency exercises. This information is also sent to the near site Emergency Operations Facilities which are jointly staffed by utility. NRC and State and local government personnel during a significant event... 

Consideration must aiso be given to how an organisation monitors emergency exercises and its training and competency levels, as the protective measures implemented by it to keep people safe will rely upon them following procedures for which they have been trained. 

The effectiveness of any site incident response plan will depend on staff training. All staff and contractors working on site need to be made aware of the plan. They should be aware of their role if an incident occurs. In addition to providing awareness training it is important to provide realistic training, i.e. emergency exercises. Emergency exercises should be carried out periodically... 

An emergency plan including detailed procedures should be developed to cover all foreseeable aspects of emergencies at a research reactor facility. This plan should specify the set of infrastructural elements necessary to provide the capability to respond to an emergency. This plan and procedures should be tested, reviewed and updated as necessary. The conclusions of periodic emergency exercises should be considered in the updating process. 

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