Review of Emergency Management Exercise Program
Office of Enterprise Assessments
November 16, 2015
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November 2015
Review of Emergency Management Exercise Program
The Office of Emergency Management Assessments, within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA), Office of Environment, Safety, and Health Assessments, conducted an independent review of the Savannah River Site (SRS) exercise program. This review complements EA’s severe event response review performed at SRS in 2014 to allow conclusions based on a more complete evaluation of the exercise program. The purpose of this EA assessment was to evaluate the exercise program’s effectiveness in validating, through tests and demonstrations, all elements of the SRS emergency management program and fostering continuous program improvements. EA performed this review from February 24 to March 12, 2015. EA also drew on its observations of SRS exercise planning and execution activities from the 2014 site-level exercise to reach conclusions for this review.