Emergency Operation Command (EOC)

Abstract: The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is a physical location that is the central command and control center that carries out the emergency preparedness, emergency management, and disaster management when a disaster occurs. The EOC is always ready to respond. The EOC is a place where highly trained experts monitor information, prepare for disasters, and share information to make fast decisions. The ECO has staff that works twenty-four seven, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year to ensure the safety of communities. Most EOC are twenty-four thousand square-foot facilities that employ up to two hundred and thirty people. Emergency Operation Command (EOC) The Emergency Operation Command (EOC) is a physical location

The EOC are considered a cornerstone of emergency preparedness and response because they are highly trained experts monitor information, prepare for known and unknown public health events, and gather in the event of an emergency to exchange information and make decisions in a fast manner (Emergency Operations Centers, 2016). When the EOC is notified about potential threats through a watch desk that fields call from the public, physicians, and state and local authorities. The responsibilities of the EOC during emergencies is to deploy scientific experts, coordinate delivery of supplies and equipment to the incident site, monitor response activities, and provide resources to state and local public health departments. While handling all these tasks the EOC will also coordinate the risk communication strategy to develop messages that are timely, accurate, reliable, and actionable. The EOC has responded to about sixty public health threats, which include hurricanes, foodborne disease outbreaks, influenza pandemic, and Haiti cholera outbreak (Emergency Operations Centers, 2016). Although the EOC takes care of emergencies, the EOC will also be called upon for presidential inauguration or Olympics taking place in the U.S to monitor for incidents that may

The first out of eight fundamental principles of community emergency planning is anticipating both active and passive resistance to the planning process, and developing strategies to manage these obstacles (Waugh, 2007, p. 115). The second principle is to address all hazards to which the community is exposed. The third principle is to include all response organizations, seeking their participation, commitment, and clearly defined agreement. The fourth principle is base pre-impact planning on accurate assumptions about the threat. The additional principles are identifying the types of emergency response actions that are most likely to be appropriate, addressing the linkage of emergency response to disaster recovery, and providing for training and evaluation of the emergency response organization at all levels. While providing the training and evaluation of the emergency response organizations levels that must be included are individual, team, department, and community (Waugh, 2007, p. 116). Lastly, recognizing that emergency planning is a continuing process is