Activity 9.6
Read
Textbook:	Disaster management: A disaster manager’s handbook, Chapter 11, pp. 143‑146.
This reading serves to summarise what we have discussed and examined so far.
Earlier in this topic you identified the location of EOCs within your local area. I would now like you to choose one of these, a multi-agency EOC if possible, and examine its functions and capabilities and comment on each of the aspects contained in the activity document below:
Remember to save your work once you have completed it.
 
EOC Functions and Capabilities

Details regarding the activation of EOC and alerting of staff	Details regarding the maintenance and checking of facilities within the EOC	Alternate EOC locations	
			
Where do the EOC staff come from?		
Are there any designated liaison officers for the EOC? If so from which organisations or departments?		
Are there any specific EOC Standard Operating Procedures or Guidelines, plans etc.? If so are the organisational or multi-organisational? Are they related to the Functional areas and services provided by the EOC?		
When was the last EOC exercise and training session conducted?