Outlines

• Introduction to oil spills.
• Enviromnental sensitivity and impacts.
• Oil types, characteristics and their behavior in the marine environment.
• Safety at the spill site.
• The medical aspects.
• Skimmers (Characteristics and uses).
• Principles of using booms (Design, ion, uses, deployment and limitations).
• Reponse organization and control strategies.
• Use of absorbing materials
• Chemical dispersants (Characteristics and applications).
• Shorelines types and clean-up..
• Management of oily wastes (Transportation, storage and disposal).
• Oil sampling.
• Maintenance of oil pollution combating equipment.

Exercise:

• Oil spill trajectory model.
• Maintenance of oil pollution combating equipment.
• Practical sessions for deployment of various types of oil spill combating equipment.
• Shoreline survey and clean-up.

Program

Environment Protection and Crisis Management

Objectives

• Enhancement of the capabilities of personnel to respond to oil spills, increasing the background knowledge of oil spill response options and training on deployment of real oil spill combating equipment.