Patrick Cunningham Civil Protection
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Service in Brief
Do you want your contingency plans, procedures, and arrangements tested to ensure they work? Do you want you staff to participate in a training exercise designed to provide them with valuable simulated experience of working in response to an emergency situation? Do you want your plans and the roles of your people, validated by realistic and independent tabletop and/or live exercises? We can provide you with all of these, either as ‘one-off’ events or part of a structured training programme.

Patrick Cunningham has designed (and regularly delivers) the Emergency Planning College’s ‘Emergency Plans Validation’ course and our Tests and Exercises are written to this same high-standard specification.

Benefits to your Organisation

• Staff gain practice in undertaking operational roles
• Staff are challenged by realistic, high pressure, fast-paced scenarios
• Scenarios can include emergency planning and business continuity elements for maximum benefits
• Full report of event and lessons learnt
• Post exercise implementation plan programme

Methodology in Brief

• We agree the aim, objectives, type and scope of the Exercise
• We scrutinise the Plan that needs to be validated
• Identify and list the good points of the Plan
• We create the Exercise Scenario
• Assess the Time Required To Complete the Project
• We appoint Exercise staff
• We identify the main players and gain their commitment to the Exercise
• We produce Pre-Exercise Instruction Booklet
• We Produce Exercise Documentation
• We Direct the Exercise
• We Hold Hot Debriefs
• We conduct Cold Debriefs
• We Produce a Post Exercise Report

Bespoke Training Courses
We also provide bespoke training courses tailored to your individual organisation’s needs. All of our courses are highly practical and interactive, and we also provide written reports of the training event as part of the overall package. We provide courses, at a venue provided by you, in the following subjects:

• Introduction to Business Continuity Management
• Advanced Business Continuity Management
• Meeting the Demands of the Civil Contingencies Act
• Elected Members Training
• On Call Training
• Induction Courses for New Staff
• Emergency Planning For Colleges and Schools
• Other Courses Tailored To Needs of Client

For further details telephone Patrick on 07711 022890 or 01670 528436, or e-mail admin@civilprotection.co.uk

Last update: 25th July 2007