Utah Department of Public Safety

Exercises

Exercise Assistance Request Form

Please use this form to request DEM assistance for your exercise. We will contact you after receiving your request to let you know what assistance we can provide.

Exercise Templates

The Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Preparedness Toolkit is a website with all of the available templates related to the HSEEP policy & guidance. DEM has adopted HSEEP as a best practice for exercise design and development, conduct, evaluation and improvement planning. A graphic representation of the HSEEP Exercise Cycle includes over 18 elements to include in an exercise process (pdf graphic). HSEEP is part of the National Preparedness System (pdf graphic).

DEM has created versions of some of the HSEEP templates to include instructions and links to relevant supporting documents. These templates include:

• Exercise Plan
• Exercise Overview
• After Action Report
• Improvement Plan
• Executive Summary
• Participant Roster
• Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan (TEP)

Exercise Types

There are seven exercise types. Four are discussion based and three are operations based. These exercises increase in their complexity. Here are a few exercise tools that may be used as aids for determining which exercise type is appropriate.

 

• How to Create an Exercise
• Exercise Types (list with descriptions)
• Exercise Types Cheat Sheet (pyramid graphic)

Other Training & Exercise Program Management and TEPW Tools  

• Core Capabilities – Graphic
• Core Capabilities Definition – Graphic
• Core Capability Development Sheets – FEMA Resource
• Other Capabilities for Exercise Design Consideration
  • Outdated – Target Capabilities List (2007) – Target Capabilities are based on the old Core Capabilities from the 2007 HSEEP Guidance. Although these are outdated, there are some valuable “tasks” that you can consider in your exercise design and evaluation planning processes.
  • Public Health Development Capabilities – CDC Resource (2011)
• THIRA Process – Graphic
• Key Elements of a TEP – Graphic
• POETE – Graphic
• How To Guide: Conducting an Improvement Planning Workshop before a Training and Exercise Planning Workshop
  • Agenda 2018
  • Worksheet 2018

• Improvement Planning Workshop (IPW) Invitation
• IPW Participant Agenda
• Training & Exercise Program Priorities Worksheet (2017 edition)
• TEPW Prep Sheet (2017 edition)
• TEPW Participant Overview (2017 edition) – Agenda 2017 – Agenda 2016
• TEP Review Document
  (For any information on how to facilitate a TEPW utilizing these templates, please contact Tracy Bodily tbodily@utah.gov)
• FEMA Independent Study Course on Exercises
  • IS-139.a – Exercise Design and Development   New 3/1/2018
  • IS-120.c – An Introduction to Exercises   New 2/12/2018
  • IS-130.a – How to be an Exercise Evaluator   New 2/12/2018

EMPG Sub-recipients are required to provide exercise reports utilizing the content found in the HSEEP templates for the exercises that they report. DEM recommends the use of HSEEP for all exercises conducted at the local, county tribal and state level even if they will not be utilized for grant reporting.

The table below includes links to the DEM exercise templates.

**Planned/Real-World Event Approval Form

EMPG Exercise Reporting Requirements	Exercise Plan * which should include an Exercise Overview page	After Action Report Improvement Plan * which should include an Exercise Overview page	Participant Roster*
Seminar (This Exercise Type is an informational briefing)	Not Required	Either AAR/IP or Executive Summary*	At a minimum, names of participants and agencies in AAR
Workshop (A Product is Developed During this Exercise Type)	Not Required	Either AAR/IP or Executive Summary*	At a minimum, names of participants and agencies in AAR
Tabletop	Not Required	Required	Required: See template
Drill (usually single agency, single function)	Not Required	Required	Required: See template
Functional	Required	Required	Required: See template
Full-Scale	Required	Required	Required: See template
Planned Event**	Not Required	Required	Required: See template
Real World Event**	Not Required	Required	At a minimum, names of participants and agencies in AAR

**Planned/Real-World Event Approval Form

Report on exercises for EMPG credit on WebEOC

2018 Exercise Calendar

WKS = Workshop, TTX = Tabletop Exercise, FE = Functional Exercise, and FSE = Full-Scale Exercise

NOTICE: This calendar is not designed for someone to register to attend or participate in an exercise (unless the listing says otherwise). The page’s purpose is to inform emergency managers of upcoming exercises statewide, enabling them to contact the POC to obtain additional information or permission to observe the exercise. Please contact krepp@utah.gov if you have an exercise you would like listed on this page.

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