TRSA’s recent Production Summit & Plant Tours featured an in-depth workshop sponsored by DCMC Partners, whose disaster-prep/response specialists broke attendees into groups for a tabletop exercise involving a hypothetical flood scenario to test their ability to respond to an emerging crisis.
 
The scenario was introduced with minimal information: attendees were told that heavy rain had begun to fall. Nine more installments or “Injects” (updates on the scenario) followed, such as the death of a route driver, which increasingly challenged the 90-plus attendees to discuss how they’d respond in real life. Facilitator Drew Sachs and other DCMC staff ...