Roles & Responsibilities
This individual is responsible for the strategic oversight and direction of an exercise within the HSEEP Cycle.
Who is the Exercise Director?
One of the fundamental principles of HSEEP is ensuring exercises are driven by this, which helps organizations assess and enhance their preparedness capabilities.
What is Capability-Based and Objective-Driven?
Observation and data collection methods differ between discussion-based exercises and this type of exercise.
What is an Operations-Based Exercise?
The Improvement Planning Process turns areas for improvement into these concrete actions.
What are Measurable Corrective Actions?
This web-based application provides access to a wide variety of resources to manage preparedness activities.
What is the Preparedness Toolkit (PrepToolkit)?
This person monitors exercise progression, communicates activities across venues, and manages the control staff.
Who is the Lead Controller?
The Integrated Preparedness Planning Workshop (IPPW) develops this essential document to guide preparedness efforts.
What is a Multi-year Schedule of Preparedness Activities?
This document provides evaluators with a standardized tool to guide data collection and capture performance results.
What is the Exercise Evaluation Guide (EEG)?
The Controller/Evaluator Debrief allows each controller, facilitator, and evaluator to provide an overview of this.
What is the Functional Area Observed?
The primary document used to record lessons learned and recommendations for future improvements in emergency exercises.
What is the After-Action Report (AAR)?
The structure of the exercise evaluation team is determined by this individual based on exercise scope, objectives, and capability targets.
Who is the Lead Evaluator?
This meeting serves as the formal end of the exercise planning process and finalizes documentation and logistics.
What is the Final Planning Meeting?
A Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) is a timeline of expected actions and scripted events injected into an exercise by this role.
Who are the Controllers?
Corrective actions from exercises must be tracked and continually reported on until completion in this document.
What is the After-Action Report Improvement Plan?
A document or system that provides a chronological timeline of expected actions and scripted events in an exercise.
What is a Master Scenario Events List (MSEL)?
This individual manages the timely and accurate delivery of injects and decides when to release contingency injects.
Who is the MSEL Manager?
This document combines efforts across the Integrated Preparedness Cycle to ensure organizations can handle threats and hazards.
What is the Integrated Preparedness Plan?
The Lead Evaluator structures the evaluation team based on exercise objectives and these two key components.
What are Capability Targets and Critical Tasks?
The After-Action Report categorizes observations into two categories: Strengths and this.
What are Areas for Improvement?
The purpose of this document is to ensure that evaluation, development, and execution of an exercise align with objectives.
What is the Evaluation Plan?
The Exercise Planning Team uses the intent of senior leaders and program priorities to shape this aspect of an exercise.
What is the design and development phase?
This planning meeting is used to refine scope and exercise objectives before finalizing an exercise.
What is the Initial Planning Meeting?
These individuals are responsible for overseeing the exercise program and ensuring exercises improve community capabilities.
Who are the Administrative and Operational Staff?
The program manager considers the preparedness priorities outlined in this document when designing exercises.
What is the Integrated Preparedness Plan?
This meeting can be conducted in conjunction with the Initial Planning Meeting for less complex exercises.
What is the Concept and Objectives (C&O) Meeting?