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Oil Spill Response Learning Outcomes

At the end of this awareness-level training you will be able to:

• Explain what an oil spill is

• Understand the characteristics of oil and the risks associated with oil spills
• Describe the characteristics of a spill response.
• Describe how to identify and control hazards during the response and clean-up phases
of an oil spill.
• Describe the role of a first responder awareness level individual in response to an oil
spill.

Oil Spill Response Training Schedule

Day 1

 Introductions
 ICS 100/200 and Development of an ICS 201 (ICS Means Incident Command
System, ICS 100/200 are Certification levels, ICS 201 is a form used to manage a
spill.  See http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/is/icsresource/trainingmaterials.htm )
o In this module the students take training conformant with the U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Adminstration (FEMA) courses 100 & 200. Tests
can be taken on-line to receive a certificate, if the students so desire. FEMA
ICS has become a global standard and FEMA’s training is widely used as
emergency response training.
 Working Lunch
 ICS 100/200 and Development of an ICS 201 (Continued)
 Decontamination Station (DECON)

Day 2

 Spill Tracking and Modeling – Hands-on Spill Volume Calculations

 Developing Areas of Operation – ICS 100/200
 Common Operational Picture/Situational Mapping
 Working Lunch
 Resource Tracking (Staging Areas) and Ordering (Reactive and Proactive)
 Field Air Monitoring

Day 3

 ICS Training – Tactical Response Planning

o ICS 202 Incident Objectives Form
o ICS 234 Work Analysis Matrix Form (United States Coast Guard)
o ICS 215 Operational Planning Worksheet
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o ICS 204 Operational Assignment Form

 Working Lunch and Use of JSEA (JSEA means Job Safety Environmental Analysis)
 Classroom Training on Boat Handling/GPS
 Classroom Training Spill Prevention and Planning/Boat Handling
 Classroom Training on Boom Deployment
 The Five Major Aspects of Spill Response

          1. Reporting
          2. Stopping it at the Source
          3. Protection/Containment
          4. Recovery/Storage
          5. Transport/Disposal
 

Day 4

 Regulatory Control based on U.S. Applicable Laws & Regulations

 Consideration of Habitat and Sensitive Areas
 Use of:
o Booms
o Burning
o Dispersants
o Use of Skimmers and Storage
 Weather, Tides, Currents
 Air Monitoring
 Spill Tracking and Observation
 SCAT Team Participation and Sampling  (Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment
Technique)
 Applicable Use of Skimmers
 When to Start; When to Stop (How Clean is Clean?)

Day 5

 Transport and Disposal

 Case Studies & Lessons Learned on Recent Spills
o Safety
o DECON
o Oiled Wildlife
o VOSS; (VOSS means Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System, normally a
fishing boat that has been contracted in an emergency to help skim oil)
o Communications; and Logistics 
o Lunch and Review
o Test
o Review of Test
o Certificates and Debriefing (Students Free to Go)
o Grade Tests and Issue Certificates
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