Whether through table top, functional or live exercises, the various people responsible for all of the human concerns should go through the testing process. Careful post-exercise evaluation may disclose that some of the people issues which seemed easily addressed on paper are in fact difficult or impossible to carry out. You do not want to drop the ball here. The Human Resource Recovery component should be evaluated after testing and following any real-time events. These and many more questions must be asked in the evaluation stage.
Plan maintenance is also critical.
Personnel, labor laws, safety regulations and other internal and external variables affecting employees are constantly changing. Some of these changes may influence how you manage the human side of your disaster plan, so quarterly or yearly reviews and updates of the plan are necessary. Properly managed, the company may move through the recovery process, from being a victim of a disaster, to being a survivor, to ultimately becoming a thriver.