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EVENTS
ALL-IRELAND ACCREDITATION SCHEME STEERING GROUP SPRING 2012 MEETING The next meeting of the ISAA All-Ireland Spill Response Organisation Steering Group will take place at 1030 am on 9 May 2012 at the HQ of the Irish Coastguard in Leeson Lane, Dublin. The Agenda will be sent out shortly. All stakeholders are invited to come to the meeting. As usual, for security reasons, all attendees are in advance requested to advise the Administrator of their intention to be at the meeting. For more information go to the Meetings Page FEBRUARY 2012 MEETING The next meeting of the All-Ireland Accreditation Scheme Steering Group will take place on Wednesday 29th February 2012 at 10.30 am at the Hillsborough office of NIEA. For more info see Meetings Page ONE DAY ISAA SPILL RESPONSE TRAINING COURSE TO BE HELD AT THE NATIONAL MARITIME COLLEGE, RINGASKIDDY, CORK ON MONDAY 24 OCTOBER, 2011 (AND, DEPENDING ON DEMAND FOR PLACES, ALSO ON TUESDAY 25 OCTOBER 2011) This year ISAA is making a break from tradition and offering a one day course instead of the normal two day course. This is in response to comment from delegates on difficulties encountered in finding time to attend over two days. The target audiences for the training programme are – GROUP A Managers from County Councils, SRO managers and others who may be required to manage the response to an inland surface water oil spill GROUP B Response team leaders and operators who will be involved in inland surface water oil spill containment and clean-up operations. Courses for the two groups, A and B, will run concurrently but if numbers of bookings justify repeating the programme on Tuesday 25 October, delegates will have an option to attend both courses. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (DESKTOP EXERCISE) FOR GROUP A 0930 Meet at the College for registration and proceed to Seminar Room 1000 Course introduction and overview 1015 Short introduction to Contingency Planning and Group Discussion 1045 Introduction of Scenario for the Desk Top Exercise, allocation of Response Team Roles Summary of Scenario: Following collapse of a wall at a factory a fuel oil pipeline leading from an oil tank to a boiler has fractured with the loss of about 20 tonnes of fuel oil. The accident happened over a weekend and it was not until the early hours of Monday morning that a member of the public reported seeing oil in a watercourse about 2 km distant from the factory. Parts of the watercourse are heavily overgrown with difficult access. The watercourse joins a small river immediately upstream of a sandy beach. At this location the river waters are subject to limited tidal influences. There are good areas of hard standing with vehicular access where the watercourse joins the river and also adjacent to the amenity beach. A plant that abstracts river water for cooling purposes is located about 2.5 km downstream. The County Council Oil Pollution Officer is quickly alerted and an immediate pollution survey is instructed. The initial report indicates that most of the oil is still in the watercourse but some has escaped into the river. Some oil is observed near a sandy shore just downstream of the point where the watercourse joins the river. 1100 Tea/coffee break 1115 Role playing by delegates, with guidance from an ISAA Facilitator 1230 Lunch in canteen and opportunity to look at exhibition stands 1330 Continuation of role playing, with guidance from an ISAA Facilitator 1430 Visit to outside spill clean-up sites to view response activities being undertaken by the spill response trainees 1530 Reassemble in Seminar Room – Review of Desk Top Exercise and lessons learned 1600 Close PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (PRACTICAL EXERCISE) FOR GROUP B 0930 hours Meet at College for Registration 1000 hours In classroom – Course introduction and overview 1015 hours In classroom – oil retention booms types and uses 1030 hours In classroom – oil absorbents 1045 hours In classroom – oil skimmers types and uses 1100 hours Tea/Coffee break 1115 hours Outside - Delegates into groups of 6/7 Look at equipment available for subsequent deployment – retention booms, skimmers and absorbents with practical advice on boom couplings, skimmer function and boom deployment. 1200 hours Lunch in canteen and opportunity to look at exhibition stands 1300 hours Outside - practical hands-on exercises whilst in groups covering - 1/ Deployment of freshwater booms and skimmers in rivers and lakes 2/ Use of oil absorbents 3/ Damming a stream or ditch for oil retention without restricting water flow 4/ Temporary storage of recovered oil and oil/water mixtures 5/ Deployment of skimmers and pumps to recover oil held within an interceptor dam 6/ Deployment of shoreline seal booms 1600 hours Back to classroom for wash-up and multiple choice questionnaire Certificates will be awarded to those who achieve a suitable pass mark 1630 hours Close AVAILABILITY OF PLACES ON COURSE GROUP A - The number of places available on Monday 24 October is a maximum of 12 but if requests for places exceeds this number we can provide additional places by either (a) splitting Group A into two separate groups meeting in separate rooms on Monday 24 October or (b) repeating the Desk Top Exercise on Tuesday 25 October (if numbers justify doing this). GROUP B - The number of places available on Monday 24 October is a maximum of 28 but if requests for places exceeds this number the course can be repeated on Tuesday 25 October (if numbers justify doing this). ISAA ALL-IRELAND SCHEME 2010 TRAINING DAYS EVENT Castle Archdale Country Park, Nr Enniskillen, N. Ireland Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th September 2010 This year, Day One will be dedicated to the Inland Oil Spill Training Course which has now been expanded to include an Introduction to Shoreline Clean-up. The classroom part of the course will be in the forenoon with the practical exercises taking place in the afternoon. The programme for Day Two is not yet quite finalised but the provisional programme is expected to include practical application of bioremediation techniques, the role of the loss adjustor in oil spill events, waste management in the context of oil spill response and best practice in managing land contamination. This year accommodation is not included in the course fee but ISAA has negotiated a special rate for course delegates of £67 (approx. €82) per person for B&B at the Manor House Country Hotel, Killadeas, Co Fermanagh, Tel + 44 (0) 28 6862 2200 Fax + 44 (0) 28 6862 1545. Delegates should make their own bookings no later than 1st September, quoting block booking reference POLY150910 We have made a determined effort to contain costs and the overall cost of attending the complete event (including hotel) is virtually the same as in 2008. With the difficult economic climate, we are also offering the option for delegates to attend on one day only. As before, the course dinner on Wednesday evening will be held during a cruise on the beautiful Lough Erne aboard the MV Lady of the Lake and the cost is unchanged at £30 (approx. €36) per delegate. Places are limited and early booking is advised. The after dinner speaker will be Captain Jack Richmond and I can promise that this will be a very enjoyable event. The next meeting of the Steering Group will be held on the day before the start of the Training Days on Tuesday 14th September at 3 p.m. at NIEA in Lisburn. It is anticipated that most of those attending the meeting will travel on to Enniskillen after the meeting is concluded. The number of places on the course is limited to about 30 and, in order to secure places, the booking form should be completed and sent in as soon as possible. The detailed programme can be downloaded here and the booking form can be downloaded here. |
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