At PARATUS SECURITY GROUP, our FEMA-certified Master Exercise Practitioners will custom-design exercises to meet your specific needs.   These range from Discussion-Based all the way up to full scale exercises.

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At PARATUS SECURITY, we regularly utilize six types of exercises which are either discussion-based or operations-based.

Discussions-based Exercises familiarize participants with current plans, policies, agreements and procedures, or may be used to develop new plans, policies, agreements, and procedures. Discussion-based Exercises include the following:

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• *Seminar: A seminar is an informal discussion, designed to orient participants to new or updated plans, policies, or procedures.
  *(PARATUS SECURITY Instructors are highly experienced in real-world events and have recently presented at the New England Association of Schools and Colleges 2018 Annual Meeting).
   

• Workshop:  A workshop resembles a seminar, but is employed to build specific products, such as a draft plan or policy (e.g., a Training and Exercise Plan Workshop is used to develop a Multi-year Training and Exercise Plan).
   

• *Tabletop Exercise (TTX): A tabletop exercise involves key personnel discussing simulated scenarios in an informal setting. TTXs can be used to assess plans, policies, and procedures. (* Table Top Exercises are a cost-effective way to gather input from participants and later incorporate this into your Emergency Response Plans. Our staff of expert facilitators perform many of these types of exercises).
   

Operations-based Exercises validate plans, policies, agreements and procedures, clarify roles and responsibilities, and identify resource gaps in an operational environment. Operations-based exercises include the following:
 

• Drill: A drill is a coordinated, supervised activity usually employed to test a single, specific operation or function within a single entity (e.g., a fire drill).
   

• *Functional Exercise (FE): A functional exercise examines and/or validates specific functionalities and assesses the coordination between administrators, teachers and responders. *(PARATUS SECURITY GROUP conducts numerous Active Threat Functional Exercises. Feedback from these exercises has been extremely positive.)
   

• Full-Scale Exercises (FSE): A full-scale exercise is a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional, multi-discipline exercise involving functional and “boots on the ground” response. (PARATUS SECURITY GROUP will work with local law enforcement and responders as well as all involved parties to create a Design Team, then host the Concept and Objectives Meeting, Initial-Middle-Final Planning Conferences, Master Scenario Event List and provide seasoned Evaluators and Controllers to ensure a safe and secure exercise.)