PlanB have a wide range of experience in developing and carrying out exercises. These have ranged from desktop exercises and walkthroughs to full multi-agency exercises. PlanB also have experience of running exercises to test the IT and people procedures for the use of work area recovery centres.
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The exercises below show a selection of some of the major exercises which have been run by PlanB:
Local Authority Strategic Team Exercise
Carried out an exercise to train a local authority on their new strategic and tactical plan. Involved briefing both teams and then a both teams taking part in an exercise where the scenario was the loss of the councils headquarters and the main data centre housed within the headquarters.
Government Agency Tactical Exercise
PlanB was asked to carry out an exercise for the organisations tactical team. This was the first time many of the participants had taken part in an exercise and they were exercising there newly written Business Continuity Management Plan. In order to enhance the realism of the exercise the following clip was used to ‘set the scene’ for scenario.
Business Continuity Exercise – Gold Dawn
This was an major exercise in 4 parts to test a major utilities recovery strategy.
- Exercise A involved 130 staff setting up their business recovery teams and responding to a denial of access to the company’s largest building
- Exercise B was a strategic exercise involving the MD of one of the biggest divisions and the CEO responding to the denial of access
- Exercise C involved the setting up of the IT and telecoms systems at the recovery centre.
- Exercise D consisted of bussing 120 staff to the recovery centre, practicing ‘live working’and taking customer calls to prove that the recovery strategy could be verified.
See Exercise Gold Dawn presentation.
Exercise Comet
Exercise for a healthcare insurance provider to practice operational teams recovering from loss of their main building. A second exercise was run to practise the strategic team dealing with the same incident.
Exercise Centaur
Multi-agency exercise based on the scenario of a major sewage spill in a residential area in Southend. The exercise involved the Water Company, Environment Agency, Local Authority, Police, and the Fire Service. Exercise was based around an ‘on site’ team working from a model of the local area working back to the Local Authority, Police and the Water Company incident rooms.
Water Contamination Exercise
Major exercise involving Bedford Health Authority, Bedfordshire County Council, the CCDC (Consultant in Communicable Disease Control) and Water Company looking at a potential Cryptosparidium contamination of the local water supply.
