Page 11 and provided a report about the status of their school, staff and students. Although this was only an exercise, it was treated as a real-life situation. The Occupational Safety & Wellness team assembled the equipment needed for the EOC in a central location including power generator, lights, mobile antenna, and ham radio. A situation board was set up with family of school zones grouped together. Once schools confirmed their school was safe and accounted for, notations were made to reflect this. There were even disaster scenarios developed to test the system. Once all of the condition reports were received from the schools our ham radio operator relayed this information to Emergency Preparedness BC. Will Dirksen, Occupational Safety & Wellness Manager said, “In an actual event everyone has a role to play; by exercising our emergency preparedness plan we will be organised and equipped.” Afterwards, the EOC team debriefs about the process and talks about any concerns, additions and is always refining the process in order to establish the best and most efficient protocol. Schools fill out and submit an Earthquake Drill Report and a condition report was sent to the Cowichan Regional District, Nanaimo City and Nanaimo Regional District. Hopefully we will not have to put this command centre to the test, but if we do, we are going to be as prepared as possible. Great job team!  In an actual event everyone has a role to play; by exercising our emergency preparednessplanwewillbeorganised and equipped. It is an eye opener for us when our guests speak of the differences between our school and back home.” School Incident Command Assigment Cards