What is OCA Incident Manager?
OCA Incident Manager is a unique web-based system built and used by key Australian emergency managers and agencies. OCA offers all of the communication and information management tools that are needed during an incident or major event.
Through OCA multiple users can log into a central online web system that provides them with a common operating picture of any given situation via widgets on a dashboard interface. These widgets are windows to a wider system for managing incidents and related contacts and critical assets. Logs are kept up to date, tasks are assigned and monitored, reports are lodged, formal requests for assistance made, and communications easily triggered across email, sms, fax and voice. Maps, geoRSS feeds and self-defined incident boundaries or map layers assist emergency managers with maintaining a strategic overview of one or many incidents at once. A sophisticated, yet easy to use workflow backbone allows for pre-planning of responses and swift reactions when timing is most critical. And for when greater assistance is necessary, OCA can be used to easily interoperate with other emergency management systems used by other agencies and departments.
OCA is used today by several key Australian federal and state government agencies, including Emergency Management Australia, police, ambulance, rail, transport, public works and state level emergency management.
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OCA can help local government
- Engage in mass communication and rapidly reach key stakeholders and the community using a range of media (email, sms, fax and voice)
- Quickly, easily and cheaply undertake incident logging, reporting and tasking
- Disseminate information such as policies, current incident-related updates, community announcements
- Monitor common operating pictures with access to all-of-incident information, including geospatial data
- Efficiently and effectively coordinate on-the-ground emergency and rescue operations and the deployment of resources to affected areas
- Interoperate and collaborate with other regional councils and state level agencies, easily sharing information in a secure environment
- Swiftly reach asset owners and custodians to ensure critical infrastructure remains protected
- Easily conduct post-incident reporting to key stakeholders
the DIGITAL REGIONS INITIATIVE
With the recent Federal Government announcement to boost funding to the Digital Regions Initiative, there's now a significant opportunity for state, territory and local governments to implement innovative digital enablement projects to improve emergency and disaster response both within and across state and territory borders.
Refer to the website for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy for further details.
An implementation of the OCA Incident Manager software is eligible under this Federal Government Initiative, but it requires an Expression of Interest submitted to the Department by September 14th 2009 in order to progress further. If you work for Local Government and you're seeking funding support, Noggin can assist you with building a case for OCA as your mission critical emergency management system, including providing answers to the following key questions:
- What is OCA Incident Manager?
- Who uses OCA and for what purpose?
- How does it align with the national policy for emergency services and management?
- How does OCA support cross department / agency / organisation collaboration and interoperability?
- What are the benefits of using OCA?
- What are the implementation considerations?
- What are the costs of OCA?
Contact us today to find out more about how we can help you procure and implement your new OCA Incident Manager software.