Activity 5.6
Read
Reading 14:	Extracts from Australian emergency manual: Training management, Chapter 9, paras 9.25-9.28.

You will notice that the second paragraph briefly introduces the requirement for a Schedule of Events. 

The reading lists four questions that need to be answered in an Event Schedule. They are What is to happen? When is it to happen? Who is to make it happen? And how is it to happen?

1.	Study the example Exercise ‘Nutcracker’, Annex C, Sequence of events (including ‘Disease time-line’) in Reading 18. Identify whether the questions we listed above are covered in the annex. Was the information user friendly? If not how do you think the information could have been displayed better? 
Read
Reading 20:	Exercise ‘Watershed’
Reading 21:	Exercise ‘Heavy landing’

2.	Is the format of the information in these event schedules more or less user friendly than that of the Exercise ‘Nutcracker’? Do not worry about the abbreviations; merely consider whether the format is more user friendly. Why do you think that?

3.	Consider your own exercise and draft an Event Schedule for the first couple of events within your exercise.

While there are a number of ways in which you can display the information, we recommend that you use the example contained in Exercise ‘Watershed’ as the basis for your assignment. The table below is based on that exercise. Let us look at the headings/ questions we need to cover:

1.	Serial number. This is not essential but you may find it useful during an exercise to be able to refer back to a serial number in the control system.

2.	Time. This should be shown as a date/time.

3.	Event. This should not be too lengthy but should contain sufficient information for control staff to be able to understand the requirement.

4.	Who and how? It is possible to combine these two headings. For instance, it may be a specific role player (such as a media representative, requesting an on-air interview over the telephone). Equally it could be an exercise participant issuing a media release as a result of a previous event.

5.	Expected response. As previously stated this is especially useful when procedures are being tested. It is not mandatory but does provide a reference for controllers to identify when some expected response has not occurred. This might then lead to the provision of some prompt to the individual or organisation concerned to carry out that action so that the exercise may continue to flow.

Event Schedule
Exercise ____________

Serial	Time	Event	Who?	How?	Expected Response