Overview
Planning, testing, and preparation keep people safe and operations running. This exercise walks your team through a realistic wildfire scenario so you can evaluate how you monitor threats, communicate with staff and vendors, protect critical processes, and decide when to shift to remote operations. You will be able to identify gaps, clarify roles, and capture action items for improvement.Before a tabletop exercise
Choose locations that face wildfire risk, confirm roles like incident manager and moderator, gather BCPs, contact lists, and playbooks, and set clear objectives and time limits for decisions.During a tabletop exercise Walk through timed injects like county alerts, fire movement toward your site, evacuation warnings within 30 miles, school closures, and media or customer inquiries. Decide when to relocate work, how to notify staff, and what to prioritize for continuity.After a tabletop exercise Debrief as a team, capture what worked and what did not, assign owners to close gaps, and update plans so future wildfires have less impact. Download our Wildfire Tabletop Exercise to test your emergency preparedness plan.Planning, testing, and preparing are critical in keeping your workforce safe and remaining your business lights on. Maintaining or quickly restoring business operations and other processes after an earthquake depend on how developed a company’s culture of preparedness is. Also, whether its management plans in advance and how it communicates with external partners. Everyone has a role in preparing for a disaster. All employers and organizations are fundamental elements of the community and can others to be more prepared.
Here’s a piece of brief advice on how to successfully run a tabletop exercise, no matter the threat.
Before a tabletop exercise
Choose a realistic scenario for your locations, confirm roles, gather your emergency response and business continuity plans, and set clear objectives and time limits for decisions.
During a tabletop exercise
Walk from watch to warning to impact to early recovery. Practice alerts, shelter in place, headcount, backup power, vendor coordination, remote access, and status updates.
After a tabletop exercise
Debrief as a team, capture what worked and what did not, assign owners to close gaps, and update plans so the next storm has less impact.
Download our Tornado Tabletop Exercise to test your emergency preparedness plan.
Planning, testing, and preparation keep people safe and operations running. This exercise walks your team through a realistic flood scenario so you can evaluate how you monitor threats, communicate with staff and vendors, protect critical processes, and decide when to shift to remote operations. You will be able to identify gaps, clarify roles, and capture action items for improvement.
Before a tabletop exercise
Choose locations that face wildfire risk, confirm roles like incident manager and moderator, gather BCPs, contact lists, and playbooks, and set clear objectives and time limits for decisions.
During a tabletop exercise
Walk through timed injects like county alerts, fire movement toward your site, evacuation warnings within 30 miles, school closures, and media or customer inquiries. Decide when to relocate work, how to notify staff, and what to prioritize for continuity.
After a tabletop exercise
Debrief as a team, capture what worked and what did not, assign owners to close gaps, and update plans so future wildfires have less impact.
Download our Flood Tabletop Exercise to test your emergency preparedness plan.
Is your organization prepared to operate in the dark?
Power outages are no longer rare events—they’re a growing threat to operational resilience, especially in the face of extreme heat, aging infrastructure, and grid failures. Whether your business is in healthcare, finance, manufacturing, or retail, you need to know how your team will respond when the lights go out.
This free, ready-to-use Power Outage Tabletop Exercise helps you uncover gaps, test your emergency response, and validate your continuity plan—before the next blackout strikes.