SIMTEC is a multi-year project, based at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), which will assist Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) personnel to consider psychosocial dimensions during an emergency. The project involves designing and conducting simulation exercises with complex disaster scenarios and specific inputs to elicit psychosocial responses from senior decision-makers in the EOC.
Outbreak Orange was the fourth in a series of tabletop simulation exercises. This exercise focused on EOCs and health EOCs and the development of protocols and procedures to manage a pandemic event.
Our intent was to examine the EOC members’ ability to devise plans and make decisions that address the psychosocial need of the community and their colleagues.
