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      <title>Exercises</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The role of exercises in United States Coast Guard (USCG) emergency preparedness is examined in this article. The goal of an exercise is to attempt to find out how emergency response can be made better and more efficient. If lessons learned and best practices identified during exercises are acted on, preparedness can be improved. Barriers to improvement include planning exercises that may be made too easy in order to avoid failure, or not highlighting a problem because it has been highlighted before. Development and implementation of an effective after action plan is critical. An insert details online databases maintained by organizations such as the USCG, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Defense.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:17:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reinforcing Security Together: First Security Conference on Anti-Terrorism Strategies in Public Transport</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This article provides highlights from an anti-terrorism security conference organized by the International Union of Public Transport and supported by Transport for London.  Discussions were primarily based around the three pillars of a security strategy: incident prevention, preparedness and response, and service recovery. The article also provides descriptions of: security in the Metro de Madrid baggage check-in service, the cooperation on anti-terrorism measures between Dutch public transport companies and local authorities, an emergency preparedness exercise in Milan, first impressions of an emergency exercise in Rotterdam and staff security training at the Lisbon Metro.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:11:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Transportation Security, Volume 9: Guidelines for Transportation Emergency Training Exercises</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This ninth volume of both NCHRP Report 525:  "Surface Transportation Security" and TCRP Report 86:  "Public Transportation Security" is designed to assist transportation agencies in developing drills and exercises in alignment with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).  In his September 8, 2004, letter to state governors, Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge wrote that "NIMS provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size or complexity."  The objective of this volume is to provide guidelines for use by transportation exercise coordinators.  Steps are described in the process of emergency exercise development, implementation, and evaluation.  In addition, the available literature and materials to support transportation agencies--including state departments of transportation (DOTs), traffic management centers (TMCs), and public transportation systems--are described.  Useful materials are presented as references, with Internet addresses, where applicable.  The guidelines in this report are supplemented online at www.TRB.org/SecurityPubs and http://trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=6007 with more than 80 resource files.  These guidelines comprise the required elements of a successful transportation emergency exercise program.  However, transportation professionals seeking greater levels of preparedness must recognize the critical part that public safety organizations will play in any community emergency and must closely coordinate with these organizations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:59:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Review of the Top Officials 3 Exercise</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report assesses efforts undertaken by the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness to develop, plan, coordinate, and conduct the Top Officials 3 (TOPOFF 3) homeland security readiness and response exercise and highlights potential areas that may affect the program’s overall effectiveness. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant agencies and institutions, direct observations of the TOPOFF 3 Full Scale Exercise and Large Scale Game, and a review of applicable documents. The Top Officials Exercise (TOPOFF) is a congressionally mandated biennial cycle of seminars, planning events, and national exercises designed to strengthen the Unites States’ capacity to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from large scale terrorist attacks. Every two years, the cycle culminates in an exercise that simulates a coordinated terrorist attack involving biological, chemical, radiological, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The exercises seek to draw the participation of top officials and key personnel from all levels of government who have domestic response and consequence management roles and responsibilities in actual terrorist events. Twenty-seven federal departments and agencies were represented in the exercise and 30 state, 44 local, and 156 private sector organizations participated. TOPOFF 3 provided Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal participants with an opportunity to exercise decision making within the framework of the newly implemented National Response Plan (NRP), National Incident Management System (NIMS), and the operating procedures of the Interagency Incident Management Group (IIMG) and the Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC). The scope of play involved establishing incident scenes and required first responders to perform actions usually associated with an initial response to a terrorist incident. Those actions included victim rescue, triage, treatment, decontamination, hazard identification, site security, crowd control, render-safe procedures on devices or weapons, monitoring for contamination, contamination control, and device recovery and packaging.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:43:09 GMT</pubDate>
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