| 1. Ensure the safety of the public and response personnel |
The Safety Officer:
- Develops a Site Safety and Health Plan
- Obtains a MSDS sheet for all products spilled and lists the potential hazards and personnel protective equipment to be worn by responders.
- Establishes control of all sites impacted (hot, cold and warm zones, and works with Logistics to secure these zones).
- Executes authority to stop operations where unsafe practices or hazards exist. This includes evacuating areas, and/or implementing restrictions for vessels and/or aircraft within the impacted areas.
- Arranges for air monitoring/testing in areas where there are clean up operations or potential impacts.
- Ensures all tailgate and staff safety meetings/briefings are conducted and issues are addressed immediately.
- Works with Logistics to ensure all areas impacted are secure and that the public, media and other interested parties request access through controlled channels.
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| 2. Control the source of the spill |
The tactics meeting defines who completes each action. Following this, the responsible party, response personnel, and/or agency personnel carry out these actions:
- Carry out emergency shut down procedures as specified in the contingency plan. This also stops the flow of the product.
- Conduct fire fighting, where applicable and safe. Transfer and/or lighter the product if conditions are safe to do so.
- Conduct salvage operations, where applicable.
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| 3. Manage a coordinated response effort |
- Command verifies all facts regarding the incident (e.g., injuries, volumes, products, stability, chance of fire, ignition sources, weather conditions and whether the area is secure or not).
- Command confirms notifications are complete and/or underway, and requests an update for each briefing.
- Logistics establishes an Incident Command Post, and where applicable, a Unified/Coordinated Command organization.
- Command ensures that the Regional Environmental Emergency Team (REET) is established and has a defined role in both Command and Planning.
- Liaison Officer ensures a subcommittee of REET (could be MSCC group) can represent the interests and concerns of all stakeholders, and review and endorse the objectives/strategies.
- Liaison Officer ensures local communities, including Aboriginal members, environmental societies and political appointees have a forum to communicate their issues, concerns and/or identify potential resources. They may join the REET with one spokesperson per interested stakeholder.
- Unified Command, BCO Spill Response Manager, and R.P. Incident Commander reviews, endorses and/or approves the Incident Action Plan (IAP) and General Long Range Plan.
- Unified Command conducts debriefs on the execution of the objectives for the operating periods defined in the IAP.
- Planning ensures tracking of all resources, including personnel and equipment.
- Planning consolidates all documentation within the Documentation Unit.
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| 4. Maximize the protection of environmentally sensitive areas |
Operations develops protection tactics as part of the execution of the strategies. Planning:
- Utilizes the expertise of the REET to identify and prioritize the environmentally sensitive areas.
- Reviews contingency plans and/or response scenario plans for pre-defined and agreed upon sensitivities for the area(s) impacted.
- If already formulated as part of a contingency plan, executes the strategies to protect the sensitivities. Otherwise, it develops these through its section.
- Develops trajectory models for tracking oil movement and request over-flights to verify /update the models.
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| 5. Contain and recover the spilled oil/material |
Operations deploys containment and deflective boom to collect the oil or protect areas of sensitivity.
- Operations conducts skimming operations: 1/ open water with vessels 2/ as part of containment boom recovery system.
- Planning evaluates the use of alternative countermeasures such as in situ burning or dispersants. Alternative countermeasures require the approval of the appropriate government agencies.
- Planning develops a short and long term disposal plan for both bulk liquids and waste materials.
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| 6. Recover and rehabilitate injured wildlife |
- Establish a hot line for reporting wildlife issues.
- Assist agencies/societies to establish a primary care area and rehabilitation center for wildlife.
- Coordinate volunteer groups.
- Coordinate the injured wildlife search and rescue operations.
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| 7. Remove oil from impacted shoreline areas |
- Planning initiates SCAT Operations for all shoreline impacted areas.
- Operations conducts clean up efforts on shorelines, oil structures (e.g., docks) and /or vessels impacted by the spill.
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| 8. Keep stakeholders informed of response activities |
- Planning works with the Liaison Officer for public and local government/port input regarding economic issues/concerns.
- Planning considers economic impacts created on tourism, the vessel operations in areas impacted, local industry, beaches impacted, private docks and waterfront properties in the area.
- Planning/Operations plan and protect the above areas as resources and priorities permit.
- Finance or the R.P. establishes a claims center hotline and damage assessment process (if requested by the R.P.).
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| 9. Keep the public informed of response activities |
Note: The R.P. is accountable to update the Stakeholders. However, it may request the assistance/support of the R.O. to explain the strategies being implemented.
- Liaison Officer schedules a meeting(s) for stakeholders to obtain information and express concerns.
- Liaison Officer provides factual information regarding the response actions to all stakeholder and public officials. Ensures that both Command and R.P. endorse the facts.
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| 10. Minimize economic impacts |
Note: The R.P. is accountable to update the Stakeholders. However, it may request the assistance/support of the R.O. to explain the strategies being implemented.
- Command/Operations assists the R.P. and/or government agencies, where applicable, in the communication of response strategies and progress (e.g. media, public meetings).
- R.P. Information Officer establishes a communications centre to share the latest spill information and a call centre that the public can access to share spill information that they may have. Safety Officer arranges for public safety notices, where applicable.
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