The seminar is designed for the staff responsible for coordinating on-site actions, ensuring the safe and effective execution of oil spill response operations and acting as a link between the field and the office by participating in the decision making process of response strategy and the implementation of it.
Learning Objectives
- Determine spill’s causes
- Analyse spill behaviour and fate
- Comprehend legal framework related to spill preparedness and response
- Examine crisis management and response organisation
- Classify spill’s impacts
- Compile advantages, disadvantages and limitations of spill response options
- Understand spill response’s supporting operations and logistics
- Identify standards for site safety and human health
- Recognize communication planning and reporting procedures
- Exercise on site arrangements and organisation
Content
- Incident causes, types and case histories
- Oil weathering and effects
- Assessment of oil spill impacts
- International legislation and response organisation
- Spill’s assessment and operations planning
- Incident and crisis management systems
- Containment and recovery session
- Dispersants session
- In-situ burning session
- Oil spill response in special conditions
- Shoreline protection and clean-up session
- Waste management operations
- Site safety and protection of human health
- Communication and reporting procedures
- Incident termination and post-incident procedures
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Exercises
Incident management system
Implementing response strategies
Duration
The standard length of the course is 32h (4 days).
Prerequisites/Recommendation
Although not a prerequisite, delegates are encouraged to have undertaken OPRC Level 1 course previously.
Delegates will receive certification under NI International Scheme. The certification is valid for three (3) years and can be renewed by attending a Refresher course.