What information should an after-action report for an egress drill include?

• A. Timing, route adherence, obstacles, lessons learned, and corrective actions.
• B. Only the elapsed evacuation time.
• C. Names of participants and their salaries.
• D. Weather conditions during drill.

Answer: (A)

After-action reports for an egress drill should document the performance details that drive evaluation and improvement. The strongest option includes timing to show how fast evacuees moved, route adherence to verify whether people followed the intended paths, obstacles encountered that slowed or redirected movement, lessons learned for practical understanding, and corrective actions to address issues found. Together, these elements provide a complete, actionable picture of how the drill went and how to make future evacuations safer and more efficient.

Focusing only on elapsed evacuation time leaves out critical context about how people moved, whether they stayed on the designed routes, and what barriers or bottlenecks affected flow. Names and salaries are not relevant to drill performance, and while weather conditions can add useful background, they don’t by themselves supply the essential, actionable content needed for improvement.