"Tabletop Drills – Practicing Your Zoo Emergency Preparedness
Exercises within a Single
Room"
January 6,
2021, at 2:00 pm eastern
Please
register in advance. Registration is
free. Seating is limited.
Registration:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dqB57AIDSQu7e7YxA4znTQ
Practicing
for emergency events of all types within zoo and aquarium environments is not
only smart preparation for all the many disasters we hear about regularly but
also is a zoo association standard necessary for accreditation. While it is
important to hold regular live-action practice drills, there are times when a
live simulation drill may be too complex or logistically difficult, or too
advanced for new or inexperienced staff for it to effect satisfactory lessons
and experience. This presentation will describe a variety of “Tabletop Drills,”
where your staff can congregate together and be led through an emergency event
step by step with the staff describing what actions they would take as the
event progresses. A tabletop drill can be formally scripted in advance by a
leader with planned injections of complications to test the participants’
reactions. Or a tabletop drill can be set up by the leader with complications
randomized by the rolls of specific numbered dice with the outcomes less
predictable. Both methods stimulate thinking about potential emergency actions
and help prepare your staff for live-action drills as well as real emergencies.
Presenter:
Ken Kaemmerer, Curator of Mammals, Pittsburgh Zoo
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