Tabletop Exercises...Schools

Every school needs to prepare for critical incidents to protect students, staff, faculty and facilities. Here's a checklist for emergency preparedness:

A. Form emergency teams at each school
B. Train in emergency Planning
C. Conduct risk and hazard assessments
D. Fully adopt the Incident Command System (ICS)
E. Develop a plan based on ICS principles
F. Provide supplies for an emergency
G. Practice using drills and exercises

Command School TTX is a leading nationally recognized developer and facilitator of emergency preparedness and response tabletop exercises. The tabletop exercise prepares school officials and staff to respond to critical incidents by providing the basic technical and conceptual skill practice necessary to take control, supervise and manage fast breaking critical incidents.

Command School TTX facilitators are incident-tested, cross-discipline professionals who will help develop the skills that are applicable to most critical incidents.

Introduce the Command School tabletop exercise facilitation into your annual emergency preparedness calendar. Prepared learning is enhanced with unique hands-on features and a scale replica of a school campus. Your team will learn to respond to all-hazards ... before "something that's never going to happen"... happens!

The tabletop exercise is a low cost, low stress training mechanism that incorporates NIMS and ICS procedures and principles. Command School is a recognized national leader in providing high quality facilitation with a unique simulator device that sets the stage for doing it right.

YOUR TEAM WILL LEARN:

  • Traditional supervisory role vs. incident command characteristics.

  • Identifying specific actions for on- scene commanders at critical incidents.

  • Recognizing specific characteristics of critical incidents.

  • Duties and responsibilities of incident commanders.

  • Activating ICS.

  • To reveal planning weaknesses

  • To identify resource gaps.

  • To improve coordination

  • To clarify roles and responsibilities.

  • To improve individual performance.

  • Build the confidence of school administrators and staff.

  • Develop proficiency and confidence in participants.

  • Test plans & systems in "live" situations.

  • Foster cooperation among local responders and school resources.

  • Increase general awareness of skills and needs.



 

  FIRE/RESCUE
  LAW ENFORCEMENT
  EMS
  SCHOOLS
  HOSPITALS
  AIRPORTS


 
  Sample Scenario
 
(Natural Disaster)

  Sample Situation Manual

  The ICS Structure

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