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What VEOC does

VEOC gives your emergency response team one virtual session per incident, with communications, ICS documentation, mapping, and reporting in a single place.

Written by Phil Wheaton

What VEOC does

The Virtual Emergency Operations Centre (VEOC) is where your team works an incident together. One session per emergency: mobilize responders in seconds, brief them on arrival, and run communications, ICS documentation, mapping, and reporting from a single dashboard. It stands in for a physical EOC or Incident Command Post when your people are scattered across sites, offices, and vehicles.

VEOC is a module of H2CommandCentre. Sign in once and pick VEOC from your application list. If you do not see it, your system administrator or H2Safety controls access. See Sign in to H2CommandCentre.

The session is the unit of work

Everything in VEOC happens inside a session. A credentialed user creates a session for an incident, invites the response team, and every message, file, form, and decision from that point lands on the session record. When the incident is over, the session closes and its full history stays available as reports.

To find or rejoin a session, see Browse sessions and Join a session.

What you get inside a session

Incident Action Plan features

An IAP licence adds the Incident Action Plan toolset: location check-in, objectives and operational periods, structured breakout rooms, auto-generated ICS 201 forms, form approvals, and the Status Board. No IAP licence, no IAP menu.

Web and mobile

VEOC runs in the browser and in the H2CommandCentre mobile app, so field responders carry the session in their pocket. Task articles flag mobile differences as they come up; Use VEOC on your phone covers the mobile-only pieces.

What you see depends on your role

Initiators and Administrators get session controls (rename, end, manage users) that regular users do not. Observers can watch but not post. See Understand roles and permissions.

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