IMO OPRC – Basic Awareness and Handling of Small Spills
IMO OPRC – Basic Awareness and Handling of Small Spills This course is intended to provide a general introduction and awareness to all those involved in marine, port and offshore operations that may lead to a release of pollutants.
Description
Learning Objectives
This course provides a general introduction and awareness to oil spills in the marine and shoreline
environment. It addresses the preparedness and response options available to an oil pollution incident in the context of the current best practices and thinking in the response to an oil spill.
The course is based on the new IMO OPRC Model Course - Level 0 – Basic Knowledge.
Course Outline
- Introduction to oil spills
- Fate and behaviour of oil in the marine and shoreline environment
- Impact of oil spills the work of IMO
- International land national legislation Oil spill response preparedness
- Understanding and assessing risk
Enrolment Standards
This course assumes that the participants have no experience in oil spill response or oil spill response preparedness but need an awareness of these subjects.