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Soft Target Exercise

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Select one location in the Capital Region that is likely to play home to a mass gathering 2) Describe the location, and the type of mass gathering. These can be real events, or you can be creative and create notional events that do not (yet) exist. Location Description of mass gathering 3) What would be the risk posed to a mass gathering, of the type you’ve described, in this location by the following hazards? (Describe using the components of risk – Threat, Vulnerability and/or Consequence, and explain how that would differ compared with other sites) Hazard Description of risk posed Vehicle Ramming Attack Active Shooter 4) What are two PHYSICAL (changes to the built environment) improvements that could be made to this space or area to decrease risk? (with the understanding that they may have financial, convenience, or psychological costs) Improvement Description of how it decreases risk 5) What are two PEOPLE OR PROCESS (changes to staffing, rules/regulations, or processes) improvements that could be made to this space or area (or to the facility more generally) to decrease risk? (with the understanding that they too may have financial, convenience, or psychological costs) Improvement Description of how it decreases risk 6) For two of the above improvements, describe the costs involved – try to account for one time financial costs, recurring financial costs, convenience costs, and social costs to the facility culture or environment Improvement Costs 7) Which, if any, of your two proposed physical or people/process improvements are “worth” the costs that come with them? Why?
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