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Design and manage the regional evacuation and relief centre exercise

You are the Exercise Director for the 19 November regional exercise.

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The situation

What has happened

The Summer Readiness Plan commits Guardian to testing evacuation and relief centre arrangements with councils, police and health services on 19 November 2026. The Chief Officer wants a coastal grassfire scenario that forces the evacuation of a township, activation of a relief centre, a community warning sequence and a handover to recovery. The exercise must use the real documents, including the Incident Action Plan Template, and involve the incident management team, the communications centre, the relief centre staff and partner agency liaison officers. Last year's exercise was criticised for injects that arrived too fast and an evaluation that produced no actions. The exercise plan is due at the leadership meeting on 7 October.

Your brief. Design an exercise with clear aims and measurable objectives, a credible scenario and inject schedule, defined roles for participants, controllers and evaluators, safety and communication arrangements, evaluation criteria tied to the objectives, and a debrief and reporting process that produces actions.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • An exercise plan with aim, objectives and scope
  • A scenario and master inject schedule
  • Controller and evaluator handbooks with evaluation checklists
  • A safety and communications plan
  • A debrief and reporting process with an action tracking method

Documents to use

Systems to use

Incident and Dispatch Log

The official record of every incident and request for assistance, with type, location, resources, incident level, control times, safety officer and debrief status.

Training and Competency Matrix

Records each member's operational competencies, currency and expiry dates, so that crews are formed and dispatched only from members recorded as competent.

Health and Safety Incident Register

The controlled record of injuries, exposures, near misses, hazards, vehicle incidents and equipment failures across stations, units, incidents and workplaces, with investigation and actions to closure.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Public Safety as at 10 September 2026.

PUAEMR032Design emergency management exercises
PUAEMR036Manage and evaluate emergency management exercises
PUAOPE028Conduct and manage community evacuation
PUAOPE030Establish and manage emergency evacuation centre
PUAOPE015Conduct briefings and debriefings

Qualifications

PUA50120Diploma of Public Safety (Emergency Management)
PUA60120Advanced Diploma of Public Safety (Emergency Management)
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

Look for objectives that are measurable and tied to real plans, a scenario and inject schedule paced for decision making with contingencies, a clear exercise control and evaluation structure, evaluation checklists that map to the objectives, a safety plan with the no duff protocol, and a debrief and reporting design that produces owned actions. The plan should be ready for a leadership team to approve.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.