Chester County Department of Emergency Services Emergency Management Exercise Request Form Survey

1.Contact Information:(Required.)

Name

Agency/Organization Affiliation

Title (if applicable)

Municipality

Email Address

Phone Number

2.Exercise Type:(Required.)

Seminar: A discussion-based exercise that orients participants to or provides an overview of authorities, strategies, plans, policies, procedures, protocols, resources, concepts, and ideas.

Workshop: A discussion-based exercise often employed to develop policy, plans, or procedures.

Tabletop Exercise (TTX): A discussion-based exercise in response to a scenario intended to generate a dialogue of various issues to facilitate a conceptual understanding, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and/or achieve changes in perceptions about plans, policies, or procedures.

Game: A discussion-based exercise that is a structured form of play designed for individuals or teams in a competitive or noncompetitive environment. It is an event experienced by the players and guided by clear rules, data, and procedures for its execution. Games are designed to depict an actual or hypothetical situation to ensure that the participants make decisions and take actions that would be plausible. Games can be used to reinforce training, stimulate team building, or enhance operational and tactical capabilities.

Drill: An operations-based exercise often employed to validate a single operation or function.

Functional Exercise (FE): An operations-based exercise designed to assess and evaluate capabilities and functions while in a realistic, real-time environment; however, movement of resources is usually simulated.

Full-Scale Exercise (FSE): An operations-based exercise that is typically the most complex and resource intensive of the exercise types and often involves multiple agencies, jurisdictions/organizations, and real-time movement of resources. Note: This option requires the selection of a tabletop exercise.

Exercise Series: A progressive multi-year program that enables jurisdictions/organizations to participate in a series of increasingly complex exercises, with each exercise building upon the previous one.

Additional assistance is need to determine what type of exercise is best for my organization.

Point of Contact:
Greg Witmer | Exercise & Training Coordinator
Chester County Department of Emergency Services
601 Westtown Road | West Chester, PA 19382
Phone: 610.344.5540 | Cell: 484.889.8457
www.chesco.org/des