Use your initiative and thought processes to understand the strategies and challenges of incident management and develop your knowledge of the complexities of equipment deployment with our practical exercise.
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IMO Level 3 training course will give you an insight into some of the key complexities that you may face on an oil spill incident and the tools to use to overcome these. The course, being very interactive, gives you the chance to use your own initiative and thought processes throughout the course to understand the challenges of incident management. You are also able to witness first hand the difficulties faced in deploying equipment with a hands-on practical exercise. The course will give you a structured journey of an oil spill from the causes and fates of oil spills through to oil spill response termination.
This is an IMO Level 3 standard course certified by the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. See our OSRL Training Standards page for more information.
Delegates who attend the 3-day course will receive an OSRL Certificate of Completion only.
Is this course for me?
This is an ideal course for those required to take the position of Incident Commander during an oil spill incident. It is also ideal for those in a position of government who are likely to be involved in emergency response and represent their jurisdiction.
- Personnel responsible for emergency response management and command of oil spill response incidents
- Decision-making managers within the oil, gas and shipping industries
- Individuals performing the role of an Executive Commander, Incident Controller or Incident Commander in an Emergency Response Team
- People belonging to regulatory or statutory bodies associated with emergency response
- Senior officials from Government agencies involved with spill response (Environment, Coast Guard, Navy and Army)
- Harbourmasters, Port Captains, Incident Managers at large ports
What will I learn?
This comprehensive course looks at the fundamentals of incident management; from legal frameworks to support during an incident through to response strategies and effective communications.
This course will give you the knowledge and understanding in the following areas:
- The International Conventions and legal frameworks in place that can support an incident
- Roles of Government Agencies and industry during an incident
- Effective implementation of contingency plans
- Gaining a comprehension of the incident strategies and tactics that could be implemented throughout a response
- Appreciation of the additional hazards faced by responders during an incident
- Media expectations and effective communications whilst protecting your company’s reputation
Course programme
- Effective emergency response contingency planning and implementation in a spill
- Consequences of oil spills
- Spill response options and resource requirements
- Boundaries and roles of Government Agencies and the Industry
- Safety-first culture in response
- Understand PR and media expectations and how to effectively communicate with the media and general public
- International conventions and legal frameworks
- Protecting your organisation’s reputation
- Understand how to terminate a response