Exercise Program
What is Exercise Program?
A scheduled series of drills, tabletop exercises, and simulations designed to test and improve emergency response and business continuity plans.
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Requirements naming exercise program across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
After implementation a program of site-specific exercises including evacuation exercises must be maintained, and every area of the facility must take part in at least one exercise in each 12 months;
as-3745-2010-planning-for-emergencies-in-facilities::7.3-7.7 · Maintain an ongoing exercise program, brief the ECO, debrief and handle a real emergency during a drill →The organization should establish a test and exercise programme that schedules tests and exercises across the critical ICT services and plans, sets their frequency by criticality and rate of change, progressively increases their scope and realism, assigns resp...
iso-iec-27031-2025::11.2.2 · Test and exercise program →Every source with a Program 2 or 3 process must exercise its emergency response notification mechanisms at least once each calendar year (responding sources may combine this with field or tabletop exercises) and keep written records of notification exercises f...
epa-risk-management-program-40-cfr-part-68::68.96 · § 68.96 Emergency response exercises →Conduct Plan Testing, Training, and Exercises (TTE) per NIST SP 800-34 Rev 1 Section 3.6 + Appendix C (TTE Best Practices) + NIST SP 800-84 Guide to Test, Training, and Exercise Programs.
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