EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
AND
RESPONSE EVALUATION

WHAT IS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS?
“a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action in an effort to ensure effective coordination during incident response.”
United States Department of Homeland Security. (2012, June 19). Plan and Prepare for Disasters. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/plan-and-prepare-disasters

WHAT IS EMERGENCY RESPONSE?
“Actions carried out immediately before, during, and immediately after a hazard impact, which are aimed at saving lives, reducing economic losses, and alleviating suffering. Response actions may include activating the emergency operations center, evacuating threatened populations, opening shelters and providing mass care, emergency rescue and medical care, fire fighting, and urban search and rescue.”
City of St. Louis. (2021). 5 Steps of Emergency Management. Retrieved from https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/public-safety/emergency-management/about/Steps-of-Emergency-Management.cfm
WHAT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE EVALUATION SERVICES DO YOU OFFER?
Our CEO Ralph Renger, PhD is also a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) certified Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP). Please see below for a detailed description of our services.
Exercise Design and Evaluation
We can plan, conduct, and evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) exercises. We will meet with your leadership to create an exercise design team. Together we plan the exercise objectives and select the best exercise type(s) to meet these objectives. Our team will train and provide the exercise controllers, evaluators, and safety officer. We will conduct the post exercise hotwash and provide you with the after action report (AAR). To date we completed over 20 local, county, and state exercises.
Response Evaluation and After Action Reports
We have worked with numerous local and state public health and emergency management agencies to evaluate their response efforts and generate After Action Reports and Improvement Plans.
COLLECTION OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PUBLICATIONS
PDF Copies of each article can be accessed by clicking the hyperlinks below.
Brodal Syversen, K., Souvannasacd, E., Booze, W., & Renger, R. (2019) Validating the LUCAS® mechanical chest compression fit specifications. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 37 (2), 371-373.
Renger, R., Jansen, A., Peacock, E., Cimetta, A., & Surdam, J. (2008) Using evaluation theory to augment the homeland security exercise and evaluation (HSEEP) guidance for evaluating operations-based exercises. Journal of Emergency Management, 6 (3), 45-52.
Renger, R., Renger, J., Basson, M. D., Van Eck, R., Renger, J., Souvannasacd, E., & Hart, G. (In Press) Using the Homeland Security and Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Building Block Approach to Implement System Evaluation Theory (SET). American Journal of Evaluation.