IMO level 1 First Responder

IMO level 1 First Responder

Ensure your on-site personnel are ready to make a safe and effective initial response to any incident.

• Improved skills of personnel responsible for initial on-site clean-up operations.
• Ensure local staff can undertake safe and effective assessments and escalate the response if required.
• Maximise the use of local equipment and personnel

• Field supervisors
• Superintendents at marine terminals or refineries
• Any persons delegated to lead initial local response to incidents

Duration: 5 days

IMO level 2 Supervisors and On-Scene Commanders

Provide your key supervisors with the skills and confidence to take charge of the response to an incident and lead operational teams.

• Effective coordination of response.
• Correct decisions on response techniques and prioritised actions.
• Effective reporting to the overall spill management team.
• Efficient use of field resources.

• Personnel who have already undertaken a level 1 course and have increased supervisory responsibilities
• Any personnel designated to coordinate field activities
• Members of an incident management team

Duration: 5 days

IMO level 3 Senior Managers and Government Administrators

IMO level 3 Senior Managers and Government Administrators

Make sure your senior personnel are fully prepared to manage the all issues arising during any scale of incident.

• Full appreciation of the issues likely to arise during an incident and the means to address them.
• Effective command and control processes.
• Integration of external resources in cases of larger incidents.
• Understand how to achieve good media relations.

• Senior personnel in a spill management team.
• Those persons with overall responsibility for oil spill preparedness and response in an organization or department.

Duration: 3 days

Crisis Management and Oil Spill Response

Crisis Management and Oil Spill Response

Ensure an oil spill incident does not escalate into an event that compromises your ability to operate in an area or damages future business opportunities.

• Develop a crisis management approach based on best practice.
• Understand when to invoke a crisis management plan.
• Describe what immediate actions should take place in the event of an incident.
• Assess the impact of a crisis on major stakeholders.

• Managers, executives and government officials with responsibility for business and organizational continuity following an incident.
• Senior managers and risk managers who require a good understanding of crisis management.

Duration: 4 days

Shoreline Clean-up Supervisor (Beachmaster)

Shoreline Clean-up Supervisor (Beachmaster)

Effective shoreline supervisors are a key elements in successful oil spill response. If oil comes ashore you will need skilled and knowledgeable supervisors to lead the workforce.

• Correct allocation of resources at oiled shoreline sites.
• Safe operations undertaken in a controlled manner.
• Waste minimization and segregation strategies adopted.
• Motivated workforce that understand the objectives of their operations.

• Designated industry or government appointed Beachmasters.
• Personnel taking control of a shoreline clean-up operation, with the responsibility for the safety and supervision of shoreline-clean-up teams.

Duration: 3 days

Oil Spill Observation and Assessment

Oil Spill Observation and Assessment

Effective timely response depends on rapid surveillance and assessment. On-going spill observation is needed to target and control response operations.

• Mobilize a rapid response to incidents with appropriate resources.
• Fulfil internal and external reporting requirements.
• Understand the fundamental limitations of oil spill quantification and how to communicate these to other parties.

• Pilots of aircraft involved in industry offshore operations.
• Personnel designated as observers in a response team.
• Government officials who will receive reports of oil spills.

Duration: 2 days

Specialist Oil Spill Equipment Operator

Specialist Oil Spill Equipment Operator

Your local response teams need to have well maintained appropriate equipment and know how to use it.

• On-site personnel are competent in the maintenance and use of the first response equipment.
• Supporting resources can quickly integrate their expertise and equipment without needing to correct local efforts.

• Operations personnel required to make the first response at a facility with on-site equipment.
• Field supervisors who will be in charge of field operations at site.

Duration: 3 days

Development of Oil Spill Contingency Plans

Development of Oil Spill Contingency Plans

A oil spill contingency plan that has been developed using international guidelines and involved all relevant interested parties is the best oil spill response tool you can possess. well maintained appropriate equipment and know how to use it.

• Ensure your plans meet international and national guidelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing plans.
• Review the work of your oil spill planning consultants with confidence.

• Personnel charged with writing, reviewing or amending oil spill contingency plans.
• Authority personnel who must approve industry contingency plans.

Duration: 4 days

Working with the Media and NGOs

Working with the Media and NGOs

Fighting the communication battle is as important combating any pollution. Adopting an open approach to working with the media and NGOs can greatly assist in preventing an emergency becoming a crisis.

• Ensure staff have the confidence to convey the right messages to the media and NGOs.
• Develop a pro-active approach to dealing with external audiences and thereby influence reporting in a positive way.
• Learn to the communication tools to defuse a hostile or threatening situation with the media or NGOs.

• Oil spill response team managers and field supervisors who may be exposed to media and NGO representatives.
• On-scene commanders and incident managers who may be spokespeople during an incident.

Duration: 2 days

Safety at Oil Spill Clean-up Sites

Safety at Oil Spill Clean-up Sites

Safety is the highest priority in any aspect of your business. You need to be confident that your staff maintain safe working practices in the heat of an oil spill response.

• Recognise the particular safety issues arising during an oil spill response.
• Develop or verify existing safety management systems to encompass oil spill response.

• Persons with health, safety and welfare responsibilities within a oil spill management team.
• Personnel who will be expected to perform supervisory roles during response operations.

Duration: 2 days

Assessment of Shoreline Contamination

Assessment of Shoreline Contamination

It is imperative that shoreline response efforts are properly prioritised and targeted. Only with a systematic and consistent approach to assessments will this be possible.

• Develop a systematic approach to shoreline response activities.
• Ensure correct allocation of response resources between sites.
• Provision of reliable and consistent information to internal management and external organizations.

• Those with a dedicated shoreline assessment role in a spill response team.
• Shoreline supervisors who will be expected to report on oiling conditions and clean-up progress.

Duration: 2 days

Response to Oiled Wildlife

Response to Oiled Wildlife

Wildlife response should be an integral part of oil spill preparedness. Wildlife responders must train and exercise to the same level as other elements of oil spill response teams.

• Integrated response between clean-up operations and wildlife rehabilitation efforts.
• Develop understanding and partnership between industry organizations and personnel from the NGO sector.
• Establish a recognised wildlife response effort and prevent ineffective amateurs taking a lead.

• Personnel, volunteers and veterinarians who may be involved in the rehabilitation of birds and other oiled animals.
• Environmental advisors who may need to coordinate with specialist wildlife response teams.

Duration: 2 days