Exercise Builder
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans many exercises to ensure its readiness to respond to a variety of events. To streamline the process of planning an exercise, the emergency management experts at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) teamed with subject matter experts from the DOE Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group to devise a computer-based tool called Exercise Builder.
Exercise Builder is an automated, Windows®-based application used for designing and developing emergency preparedness drills and exercises. The program allows your emergency management staff to create Drills and Exercise Plans based on information customized for your facility or site. Separate documents are created for each of the components that make up an Exercise Plan.
DOE has adopted this product as the standard for developing its internal-only exercises.
Exercise Builder features:
- Provides step-by-step, prompted assistance in developing the documents required for an Exercise Plan.
- Stores site-specific information that is automatically inserted into the Exercise Plan.
- Suggests appropriate exercise objectives based on the scenario type and exercise participants.
- Allows for customizing exercise objectives and adding new objectives.
- Automatically generates a MSEL, after times are assigned, to response steps.
- Stores and links exercise messages to the MSEL. If the MSEL times change, the messages are updated and re-sequenced.
- Generates entries for the Controller Directories based on message addressees.
- Uses previously enter information to assist with the creation of Exercise Evaluation Guides.
- Generates components of the After Action Report.
To request a copy of this innovative product, visit the DOE Emergency Management Special Interest Group Web site
