WebEOC Reference Group meets

The WebEOC reference group met today and discussed the initial roll out of WebEOC, it's use in past and future exercises, further training required and new boards to be developed.

The group agreed to their terms of reference and that it's proper name will be the 'Emergency Management Information System' reference group. This reflects the fact that whilst WebEOC is the core of the system it also provides a national GIS system and in the future will have APIs with a number of other systems in order to populate it with real time data.

The EMIS reference group will meet on a six monthly basis, but will also undertake a range of work, such as developing training material or reviewing new boards by email and teleconference.

Creation of agency specific folders in the file library

The file library has had a number of read-only folders created with copies of national guidance, plans and legislation. These folders will be further populated with the DHB health emergency plans as they are finalised. Each agency has also has an ‘agency only’ folder created where internal documents, such as operating procedures or contact lists can be stored.

Changes to the Task Summary Display

An extra column has been added to the Task Summary Display on the right hand side. This displays your agency’s response to the task. For example you may have completed your agency response to a task but the task may still be shown as in progress by the agency that created it.

Update - Classification of Event Log terminology

The terminology for the position, EOC and Sig Event logs has been modified slightly. Hopefully this will more clearly show the inter-relationship between the logs.

The Position Log has been renamed Position Event Log
The EOC Activity Log has been renamed EOC Event Log
The EOC Sig Events and National Sig Events are unchanged