Emergency Management Exercises

AELG has undertaken a number of studies reviewing the effectiveness of emergency communication and coordination within the lifeline utility sector and between lifeline utilities and Civil Defence agencies. These studies have resulted in new arrangements and protocols for how these agencies communicate in an emergency. The following reports provide more background to how the current arrangements were developed.

Exercise Jaffa 

Lifeline utilities participated in Exercise Jaffa in 2005, the first Auckland CDEM Group Exercise in many years. The exercise highlighted the need for improved processes for coordination within the utility sector and between utilities and CDEM in an emergency.

The Auckland CDEM Group has now engaged a Lifeline Utility Coordinator to support this coordination in the Group Emergency Operations Centre and developed Lifeline Utility Coordination Protocols.   Download tthe latest version of the Protocols here ... Auckland LUC protocols.pdf

Exercise Marconi

Held in June 2007 to test the lifeline utility coordination (LUC) processes in the Group Emergency Operations Centre (GEOC) through escalating levels of emergency and to assess the lifeline utility interface with the GEOC. Specifically, the focus was on communications and information transfer between lifeline utilities and GEOC and processing within the GEOC during the response phase of a regional-scale emergency. The exercise scenario was based on a major impact cyclone hitting Auckland.  Download the Exercise Evaluation report here ... Final Report - AELG exercise Marconi 020807.pdf

Exercise Ruaumoko

A national exercise held in 2008, based on an Auckland volcanic eruption scenario. Communication processes were again a focus of the exercise, but the exercise also provided the scope to assess the relationship between local, regional and national coordination and communication lines. A report was jointly prepared by the AELG and National Lifelines Committee and is available to download here ..... Ruaumoko Sector Notes Post-Workshops (Oct version) PDF.pdf

 

 

Exercise Ruaumoko tested our ability to

respond to an Auckland volcanic event