WebEOC® and Exercise Orion in the UK

Orion orion

"As Command Post lead for Exercise Orion I was responsible for co-ordinating the injects into, and exercise “battle rhythm” of, four Gold level Strategic Coordination Groups (SCGs) which were operating in four counties: Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Merseyside and Lincolnshire; as well as managing the flow of information and injects upwards to and from the government level Communities and Local Government’s Emergency Room (CLG-ER), a simulated COBR and the live-playing Fire and Rescue Service National Co-ordination Centre (FRSNCC) in West Yorkshire.

The live field exercises at Hampshire and Merseyside directly fed their SCGs, which largely worked to their own injects and at their own pace, whereas for Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire it was critical that they received localised information from both live exercises and received managed injects from Exercise Control (ExCon).

With the field exercise locations leveraging into a notional 50 simultaneous events we in ExCon were concerned about how we would be able to maintain an overview of what was happening in each of those live locations and manage the flow of this information into Herts and Lincs. We also needed to be able to challenge all four of the local SCGs through injects during the Exercise.

We worked together with Hanover Associates to reconfigure the current WebEOC® system which is used by the NRAT team in the UK. As a result during the exercise we were able to view information from the live sites and decisions that had been made at Gold and Silver level both from the relevant Fire & Rescue Services and from other agencies such as the police, ambulance and local authorities.

I was impressed by the flexibility of WebEOC and by its simplicity. It was easy and intuitive to use and it made my role as Command Post lead much more manageable by supporting strong situational awareness throughout the Exercise."

Kevin Arbuthnot, QFSM
Director, Gold Command Course

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