How to Conduct a Tabletop Exercise for Better Emergency Response

Improve your team's ability to respond to potential threats with the highly-effective tabletop exercises outlined in this video.

Tabletop exercises (also called “tabletop drills”) are a low-risk, cost-effective way to assess and improve your organization’s incident management procedures, giving your employees a chance to learn and practice their roles in an actual crisis.

In this video, we’ll cover how to conduct tabletop exercises for any potential internal or external threat that could impact your organization. We’ll also discuss ways to keep your employees engaged in these exercises, and best practices for documenting lessons learned and creating an emergency response improvement plan.

Additionally, use these resources to help implement the strategies outlined in the video:

+ Tabletop Exercise Template – Follow these steps to conduct simulated exercises that test your organization’s emergency response procedures:
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+ After Action Report Template – Use this guide to identify gaps in your incident response and ensure your organization is better prepared for the next time a critical event occurs:
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+ All-Hazards Preparedness - Develop a multi-threat approach to emergency management that prepares your employees to respond to various disasters or critical events:
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0:00 Introduction
1:38 What Is a Tabletop Exercise?
2:35 Why Conduct a Tabletop Exercise?
3:38 Choosing Your Participants
6:27 Steps to Conduct a Tabletop Exercise
10:11 Using Injects
11:08 After-Action Reviews and Reports