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Oil Spill Exercises If you are part of a response system would you rather ensure you have a robust response system, or wait until you have an incident before finding out what the problems are? If you do have a proactive attitude, exercises are a proven method of defining your group’s response capability by identifying gaps and actions to resolve these issues.
The Service Oil Spill Response has a wealth of experience in the provision of exercises which can assist in solving these questions. This experience comes from the successful delivery of exercises across the world to a variety of oil industry leaders enabling us to provide best practice solutions for your own operations. Oil Spill Response can offer the following: Equipment deployment - Primarily Tier 1 and 2 scenarios focusing on equipment deployment at a location relevant to the scenario in accordance with pre-agreed strategies. Tabletop - Typically desk-based involving the incident management team and hence usually Tier 2 and 3 scenarios. Other relevant stakeholders may be involved or role-played by the facilitation team. A typical Tabletop will last approximately half a day. Full scale incident management – Primarily Tier 3 scenarios with multi-stakeholder involvement using tabletop and deployment exercise elements. These exercises normally involve a major planning process of at least six months and typically last one to two days.
Our Approach Oil Spill Response can manage your exercise programme to support a continual and sustained process of improvement to preparedness and response capabilities. For individual project assignments, we can offer an entire support package or specific elements in the planning, implementation and evaluation of an exercise project. Through our relationships with key organisations we may involve external groups, provide role players to suit individual project needs and of course, with over 25 years of worldwide response activities, we offer an unrivalled insight and wealth of With over hands-on practical experience. 25 years of
worldwide response acitivities, we offer an unrivalled insight and wealth of hands-on practical experience.
Oil Spill Response works with a range of organisations in support of their individual preparedness programmes. The types, frequency and scale of exercises that an organisation might need will depend on a range of factors.
In each case, however, Oil Spill Response is committed to the development and delivery of realistic exercises which ensure that all those involved are familiar with their response set-up including such items as contingency plans, organisational structures and individual roles and responsibilities. An effective exercise will test both individuals and the organisation as a whole. It offers opportunities to learn lessons and improve preparedness. Oil Spill Response exercises are therefore developed in close cooperation with the organisations involved, to ensure
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key objectives, tests and measures are set, and a variety of innovative control and direction methods are used to make the most of an exercise.
Recommended frequency of conducting exercises The types, frequency and scale of exercises that an organisation might need will depend on a range of factors. With that in mind, we recommend the following as a minimum: Equipment deployment
At least once a year
Tabletop
At least once a year
Full-scale incident management
At least once every three years
The Benefits Exercises are an integral part of your organisation’s response preparedness programme. If you want to guarantee that your team is ready to respond it is vital that you carry out an exercise.
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