Outlines

• National Oil Spill Contingency plan.
• Case Study-Real Oil Spill Incident.
• Overview of oil spills.
• Safety at the spill site.
• Behavior & Fate of Spilled oil.
• Oil Containment Booms.
• Oil skimmers.
• Chemical Dispersants.
• Oil Spill Response Options.
• Liability & Compensation.
• Management of Oily wastes.
• Oil Spill Crisis Management ( Incident Command System).
• Communication and Information Sharing.
• Sensitivity Mapping.
• Shoreline Types and Clean-Up.

Exercise

• Oil Spill Trajectory using Predicition Model
• Practical sessions for deployment of various kinds of oil spill combating equipment in the training site.

Program

Environment Protection and Crisis Management

Objectives

• Focusing on the essential support functions included in the incident command system, familiarization with the definitions of the on-scene commander’s responsibilities, management of sea operations, types of countermeasures (their deployment and configurations) and other aspects related to responding to oil spills, and training on deployment of real oil spill combating equipment.