Exercise Evaluation Guides

School Safety Partners presents a collection of 15 model Exercise Evaluation Guides (EEGs) related to the full-scale multijurisdictional active shooter exercise at Pueblo County High School.

School Safety Partners presents a collection of 15 model Exercise Evaluation Guides (EEGs) related to the full-scale multijurisdictional active shooter exercise conducted for Pueblo School District 70, Pueblo, Colorado, on May 14, 2008, at Pueblo County High School.

These EEGs are not meant to replace the evaluation procedures that were planned for the exercise, but are offered here for supplemental review and for possible use in future national-level school safety exercises.

EEGs such as these have been developed to assist in the evaluation of the performance of tasks, activities, and capabilities necessary to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters. They are part of the Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP), which provides common exercise policy and program guidance that constitutes a national standard for homeland security exercises.

The EEGs are instrumental to exercise evaluation, improvement plans, and corrective actions because these documents assist the exercise evaluation process by providing evaluators with consistent standards and guidelines for observation, data collection, analysis, and report writing.

The EEGs are the primary reference for exercise evaluation to ensure all jurisdictions and organizations evaluate exercises against a consistent measurable baseline. This method of evaluation helps identify significant gaps in preparedness capabilities across the Nation, and serves as a tool to develop stronger and more consistent After Action Reports/Improvement Plans (AARs/IPs). EEGs provide exercise evaluators with a manageable tool to collect data during an exercise, in a format that allows easy transfer of information to the AAR/IP.

The EEGs here were created using the online HSEEP EEG Builder, which allows users to create customized EEGs by selecting which Activities from a given Capability will be evaluated during an exercise. To further focus the evaluation process, the EEG Builder can be used to edit these EEGs and create customized Tasks and Measures.

Model Exercise Evaluation Guides (pdf files)

1. Citizen Evacuation and Shelter-In-Place
2. Communications
3. Community Preparedness and Participation
4. Emergency Public Information and Warning
5. Explosive Device Response Operations
6. Firefighting Operations/Support
7. Information Gathering and Recognition of Indicators and Warnings
8. Intelligence/Information Sharing and Dissemination
9. Medical Supplies Management and Distribution
10. Onsite Incident Management
11. Public Safety and Security Response
12. Responder Safety and Health
13. Search and Rescue (Land-Based)
14. Structural Damage and Assessment
15. Triage and Pre-Hospital Treatment

The online HESEEP EEG Builder for this EEG collection is located at:
https://hseep.dhs.gov/eegb/standalone.aspx?pg=ExerciseInfo&EegID=10476