Preset drills, your intervals, everyone signs.
113 preset drills and exercises across the four products, each with its steps, roles, equipment, the records to keep and where it comes from. Copy one into your own plans, set how often you run it, run it on the phone with no signal, and every person signs for themselves.
The library, by product
89 drills
- Fire and rescue: 22
- Ambulance and patient transport: 8
- Police: 6
- State Emergency Service: 14
- Marine rescue: 10
- Surf life saving: 7
- Aviation rescue and fire fighting: 10
- Mine emergency response: 12
Each organisation sees the drills for the services it runs. The ten ARFF drills are the same as Escudo Aviation’s, and the twelve mine drills the same as Escudo Mining’s. Police drills stay with vehicles and equipment.
10 drills
- Fleet: 10
Depot evacuation, spills, vehicle fire, breakdowns, dangerous goods, bus evacuation, wheelchair lifts, after a crash, a missed lone driver check-in and load shift. A fleet that runs mining plant also sees the mobile plant fire drill.
24 drills
- Aviation rescue and fire fighting: 10
- Aerodrome: 8
- Ground support equipment and airside: 6
Each module shows its own drills when it is switched on: response time tests and live fire for ARFF, emergency exercises for the aerodrome, and apron emergencies for ground handling.
12 drills
- Mine emergency response: 12
Emergency plan tests, multi-agency exercises, self-rescuer donning, evacuation, refuge chambers, callouts, TARPs, the fresh air base, plant fire, and vertical, confined space and heavy vehicle rescue.
Every drill says where it comes from
21 of the 113 carry an interval that a regulator or national body states, quoted with its clause. 7 of those are filled in when you add the drill, marked “confirm for your operation”, and only for the countries the source covers. Every other interval starts blank: set by your risk assessment or procedures.
Person overboard
5 steps, 1 timed
Interval: Set by the risk assessment for the vessel (MO 504 Sch 1 cl 9(4)). No New Zealand drill interval found.
Source: Marine Order 504, Sch 1 cl 9: a description of the drill, the names and signatures of those who took part and the date, kept 5 years.
Live fire with agent
6 steps, 1 timed
Interval: Malaysia: not more than one month (CAGM 1414 14.6.9), filled in for Malaysian stations to confirm for your operation. New Zealand and Australia shown beside it.
Source: MOS 139H 20.1.3, NZ AC139-4 Rev 7 and CAGM 1414. Records kept 5 years (MOS 139H 28.1.2).
Full-scale emergency exercise
7 steps, 1 timed
Interval: No more than 2 years between full-scale exercises (Part 139 MOS 2019 s 24.05(1)), filled in to confirm for your operation.
Source: Part 139 MOS 2019 chapter 24, with NZ CAR 139.109 and PNG Part 139. Records kept 3 years (s 24.02(6)).
Emergency plan test
6 steps, 3 timed
Interval: At least once a year in NSW, Queensland, Victoria and New Zealand, filled in to confirm for your state and operation.
Source: NSW WHS (Mines and Petroleum Sites) Regulation s 96, Qld MQSHR s 40, Vic OHS Regulations r 435, WA r 669, NZ ACOP 7.1.
Prisoner pod emergency release and evacuation
5 steps, 1 timed
Interval: Set by your procedures. No regulator states an interval that we found.
Source: Your force’s custody transport procedure. Why the pod matters: Queensland coroner’s inquest findings, October 2023.
Bus passenger evacuation
5 steps, 1 timed
Interval: Set by your emergency plan (model WHS Regulations r 43). No fleet regulator states an interval that we found.
Source: Safe Work Australia, emergency plans fact sheet.
From the library to the pack
- 01
Add it to your plans
Open the library on the dashboard and press Add to my plans. The drill is copied as a draft. Nothing is switched on until you do this.
- 02
Make it yours
Change the wording, steps, roles and equipment, set your own interval and the station, vessel, vehicle or team it covers, then publish. A published version never changes.
- 03
Due by your plan
Shown as due from 14 days before the date by default, which you can change per plan. The board shows a note such as “Overdue 12 days by your plan” and an alert is raised.
- 04
Run it on the phone
Step by step with no signal: done, not done or not applicable, a timer on timed steps, a note and a photo, then the outcome and the debrief.
- 05
Everyone signs
Each person signs for themselves that they took part. The lead closes the run, and after that it cannot change. An assessor signs only where the plan names one.
- 06
Findings and the pack
A finding becomes a defect on the vehicle or a corrective action with an owner and a date. The drill pack brings a period together with a SHA-256 fingerprint.
What a run records
- People and roles
- Members by name, each as lead, participant, assessor or observer, and other agencies who took part.
- Each step
- Done, not done or not applicable, with the seconds taken where the step is timed, a note and a photo.
- Outcome and debrief
- The outcome, whether the objectives were met in your own judgement, and what was learned.
- Signatures
- One per person for each run, drawn on the phone. A second signature from the same person is skipped, so a phone that re-sends never adds one.
- Kept on the phone
- The run is saved as it goes and sent when signal returns, with ids made on the phone so nothing is sent twice.
- The plan it followed
- The plan and version used, the interval you set, and the source’s interval shown beside it where one is stated.
A period of drills, ready for the auditor
Officers and supervisors choose the dates and print it, or take it as data. It says on its face that it is your drill record for the period, and that Escudo records what people did and never certifies.
- The plans in force, each with your interval, the due window and the assessor where one is named
- Every run in the period with its steps, times, people and signatures
- Findings, with the defects and corrective actions raised and how they were closed
- What is due or overdue by your own plan
- A SHA-256 fingerprint of the data, so a reviewer can confirm it is unchanged
What Escudo never does with drills
It keeps your plans and what happened, and reminds you when a drill comes due. How often you drill, and what a good result looks like, stay with you.
- Says a crew is trained, competent, compliant or ready because of a drill, or that a programme meets any standard
- Invents an interval. A drill carries one only where a regulator or national body states it, with the clause, and anything not confirmed is never filled in
- Sets a time or a pass mark for you
- Lets an overdue drill change a board, a lane or a vehicle status. It stays a note and an alert
- Switches drills on for you. The library waits until you add a drill to your plans
- Records fitness results, medical details or an assessment of a person’s ability
- Includes pursuit or urgent duty driving for police. Those stay with your driver training
See your own drills in it
Send us one drill you run now, on paper or in a spreadsheet. We will show it as a plan, run it on a phone and print the pack.
Or email us: info@escudoready.com