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EPR-Public Communications TT-001

Enhance communication skills in crisis scenarios to prepare and respond to nuclear emergencies. Evaluate readiness, identify challenges, and plan for effective public communication. Develop strategies for communication roles, resources, information preparation, and support services.

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EPR-Public Communications TT-001

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  1. EPR-Public CommunicationsTT-001 Table Top Exercise

  2. Objectives • To practice skills acquired throughout the course that can be applied in a real world context. • To reflect on communications challenges, in a local context, in preparing for and responding to a nuclear or radiological emergency. • To assess current capacity to respond to an emergency and identify what actions could be taken to improve overall preparedness for communications.

  3. Part 1: Simulation Exercise • Exercise Scenario • You are in charge of risk communications for the authority responsible for radiation protection for your country. • At 12:00 UTC, a nuclear power plant accident in another country has resulted in the release of a large atmospheric plume of radiation. • Your authority has activated its emergency centre. Current weather predictions indicate that the radioactive plume is unlikely to reach your country. • It is now 16:00 UTC. International media have been widely reporting on the accident, but so far, local media reporting in your country has been limited and mostly reproducing international news wire service reports.

  4. Part 2: Discussion and Next Steps • How do you think the public in your country would react to a real life emergency like this one? • How aware would they be about this beforehand? • Who would be responsible for communicating? • Would there be any specific challenges to effective communications?

  5. Part 2: Discussion and Next Steps • How prepared are you right now to communicate about an emergency like the one in the exercise? • Think about the roles that were required in the exercise—would you have enough people. • Do you have contact lists, facilities, materials, services that may be needed? • The information required, has any been prepared already—background information, messages, website content, briefing tools, etc? • Audiences and channels. • The supporting services, like translation and media monitoring, do you have suppliers in place? • Would you know who to call if you needed to get help for answering phone calls from the public? • Who would the spokesperson be– would they be prepared to deal with such a situation?

  6. Part 2: Discussion and Next Steps • What things could you do after this course to improve your preparations to communicate during a radiation emergency?

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