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Task Evaluations and Audits

As an inspector, you will be required at some point to evaluate a person as they

perform a specific task or sit down with a program manager to conduct an audit on their

program. To ensure success, an inspection work plan should be developed for each of these

activities. The inspection plan should answer or identify the following items:

1. What is/are the requirement(s) being evaluated?

2. What is/are the success criteria?

3. What data do I need?

4. What data collection methods will be used (observation form, interview, database extract,

etc.)?

Exercise Scenario Planning

As you answer the above questions, it will become obvious the only way you will be able

to collect any data for evaluation is to have the inspected unit or personnel perform a task or

respond to a situation. This means you will have to develop an exercise scenario that will

provide the data collection opportunity you need to perform your mission as an inspector. The

following steps will help guide you as you develop your inspection scenario.

1. Identify the purpose of the scenario

2. Determine the scope of the scenario

3. Determine the specific inspection objectives

4. Determine the number of inspectors and where they need to be positioned

5. Determine the number and type of wing/unit participants you expect to participate

6. Determine wing/unit equipment requirements (simulated, real)

7. Determine IG team equipment requirements

8. Develop and coordinate simulations and deviations from the norm due to

any constraints/restrictions

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9. Identify the play area/route for the scenario

10. Identify pre-staged information needs (what info would the unit have access to if this were

real)

11. Identify stimulus/trigger method (how will you start the scenario? Phone call to

command post, ground burst simulator, etc.)

12. Develop expected response criteria

13. Develop data collection/observer forms

14. Determine key observation points

15. Determine inspector intervention criteria

16. Develop inspection team communication plan

17. Develop briefings for participants, inspectors, and OPFOR as required

Safety Risk Analysis

Exercise scenarios contain an element of risk simply due to the nature of what we do in

the Air Force. As an inspector, you never want to get someone hurt or killed or damage

equipment because of an unsafe exercise scenario design. Once you have developed the

scenario, you need to conduct a risk assessment to identify any potential hazards. Again, the

following steps need to be accomplished to ensure you have a safe exercise scenario.

1. Identify hazards

2. Determine likelihood and consequences of the hazards identified.

3. Apply risk management techniques to mitigate or eliminate the hazards.

4. Modify scenario as required based on mitigation techniques.

Obtain Team Chief Approval

The last step in the process is to brief everything to the Team Chief and get his/her

approval as they are the ones ultimately responsible for what happens when the scenario is

executed during the inspection.