What is this standard about?
This international standard recommends good practice and guidelines for an organization to plan, conduct, and improve its exercise projects. (Exercise is defined as “the process to train for, assess, practice and improve performance in an organization.”)
Who is this standard for?
- Any organization regardless of size, type and nature, whether private or public
- Senior management
- Human resources
- Anyone responsible for internal projects/pastoral/wellbeing/exercises within an organization
Why should you use this standard?
Exercises are seen as an important management tool, helping to identify gaps and areas for improvement while determining the effectiveness of an organization’s response and recovery strategies. As well as measuring the competence of personnel, they are excellent tools to assess revised plans and change programmes for completeness, relevance and accuracy.
The standard’s guidance can be adapted to the needs, objectives, resources and constraints of any business.
Effective exercises can help:
- Validate policies, plans, procedures, training, equipment, inter-organizational agreements, disaster recovery systems etc
- Clarify and train personnel in roles and responsibilities
- Improve inter-organizational coordination and communications
- Identify gaps in resources
- Improve individual performance
