What is the Emergency Management Tracer like?
I have sat through many of these and here is the inside skinny on how they typically proceed; the first hour- hour & half are dedicated to the traditional EC Interview- several cream puff questions and the surveyor gathering information regarding your EC program. They may ask to see some documents but they usually have acquired most of what they already needed by said time. The second half of the EC Interview (the next hour to hour & a half) is dedicated to the EC Tracer. The surveyor will choose one of seventeen different disaster scenarios and ask the group specific scripted questions relating to the incident / event. The surveyor will evaluate how confident and capable the group demonstrates their knowledge and ability to these questions as if it were a table top drill in a Q&A format. In order to prepare for this activity, you may wish to establish a meeting of your team and conduct your own exercise utilizing this very same method. We have done this with most of our clients and ac
