This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to manage and evaluate exercises designed to practice one or more elements of the emergency management arrangements. It includes reviewing exercise preparation to any context in which an emergency management exercise is appropriate and evaluating outcomes against exercise objectives.
Emergency management exercises may be used to simulate emergency events in order to train personnel, review and test planning processes, identify needs and/or weaknesses, demonstrate capabilities and to practice people in working together.
The unit applies to personnel who are responsible for implementing and evaluating predesigned emergency management exercises.