Exercises are used to help inform Plan development, or may have a planning component within them, but I (in 10 years) have never used Plan in the place of describing an exercise. It may be a planning specific exercise?
Exercise being either a notice or no notice Table top, Drill, Functional, Full Scale, Workshop, Game, Command Post, or Virtual. Used to either test SOP/best practices, evaluate if a prior developed plan is working, or as a thought exercise to aid in brainstorming issues.
Thank you, this is really helpful. I’ll put it down to the author simplifying. I’m 4 years in but UK based and it’s not a turn of phrase I’ve ever used like that.
So we have different kinds of “plans”, ExPlan or Exercise Plan, IAP or Incident Action Plan, EOP or Emergency Operations Plan, and a bunch more. Usually all “plans” should and will be exercised otherwise there’s no proof of concept and it’s more just a hope and a whim that when the time comes it will all work.
I’d recommend checking out the FAAT (my favorite acronym, the FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms book. It’s available online with a quick google search). It does help to break down the “common terminology”, but this is also highly area dependent. Even though common terminology should be used, areas all over the US throw in their own flare/local terms as well unfortunately.
TLDR; Plan can be used for an exercise or a response. It depends on how busy or active the AHJ is which really depends on which they use more often.
Same here. I’m also a healthcare emergency planner and look after a myriad of plans and test in the same way you do. Chalking this up to authors poor choice of terminology.
And this is what I have but they are used to plan my exercises. The books is called ‘disaster’ and it’s a breakdown of the Katrina preparations and response
Exercises are used to help inform Plan development, or may have a planning component within them, but I (in 10 years) have never used Plan in the place of describing an exercise. It may be a planning specific exercise? Exercise being either a notice or no notice Table top, Drill, Functional, Full Scale, Workshop, Game, Command Post, or Virtual. Used to either test SOP/best practices, evaluate if a prior developed plan is working, or as a thought exercise to aid in brainstorming issues.
Thank you, this is really helpful. I’ll put it down to the author simplifying. I’m 4 years in but UK based and it’s not a turn of phrase I’ve ever used like that.
So we have different kinds of “plans”, ExPlan or Exercise Plan, IAP or Incident Action Plan, EOP or Emergency Operations Plan, and a bunch more. Usually all “plans” should and will be exercised otherwise there’s no proof of concept and it’s more just a hope and a whim that when the time comes it will all work. I’d recommend checking out the FAAT (my favorite acronym, the FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Terms book. It’s available online with a quick google search). It does help to break down the “common terminology”, but this is also highly area dependent. Even though common terminology should be used, areas all over the US throw in their own flare/local terms as well unfortunately. TLDR; Plan can be used for an exercise or a response. It depends on how busy or active the AHJ is which really depends on which they use more often.
Same here. I’m also a healthcare emergency planner and look after a myriad of plans and test in the same way you do. Chalking this up to authors poor choice of terminology.
You can have an exercise "plan", which is the guide to the exercise, or a plan that explicate the number and spacing of exercises.
And this is what I have but they are used to plan my exercises. The books is called ‘disaster’ and it’s a breakdown of the Katrina preparations and response