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Why use Carechem Marine?
Carechem Marine provides you with consultancy services for contingency planning and post-incident investigation. Some of the benefits include:
- Detailed modelling of the behaviour and fate of chemicals spilt at sea
- Refined estimates of vapour clouds' extent
- Help in decisions for salvage options, e.g. what are the environmental consequences of the spill? Is mechanical recovery possible? If your ship sank, should you try to recover the cargo or use controlled release to disperse it?
- Help set up or review the extent of exclusion zones
Carechem Marine is tried and tested by chemical manufacturers, shippers and regulatory authorities alike.
Why use expert support?
- Demonstrate Responsible Care
- Comply with HNS protocols and conventions
- Improve efficency
- Tried and trusted service
- Health and safety of staff, responders and the general public
Subscribing to Carechem Marine means your responders do not have to undergo constant training on different models. It also allows them to concentrate on dealing with the incident rather than spending valuable time running the models.
Training and exercises are an important element in ensuring a successful response operation. NCEC can also work with your response team to design or participate in spill response exercises.
The service is tailored to fit in with your emergency plans and has in-built exercises that allow your responders to understand what to expect from the service in a crisis.
In addition to the needs of national marine protection agencies to respond to such incidents, the requirements on chemical manufacturers, shippers and port authorities for emergency preparedness, contingency planning, training and impact assessments are increasing:
The International Maritime Organization has adopted a new protocol aimed at providing a global framework for international co-operation in combating major incidents or threats of marine pollution from ships carrying Hazardous and Noxious Substances, such as chemicals.
Parties to the Protocol on Preparedness, Response and Co-operation to Pollution Incidents by Hazardous and Noxious Substances, 2000 (HNS Protocol) will be required to establish measures for dealing with pollution incidents, either nationally or in co-operation with other countries.
Ships are required to carry a shipboard pollution emergency plan to deal specifically with incidents involving HNS. The Protocol came into force on 14 June 2007.
For more information on the HNS Protocol see...
- The US Coast Guard (Department of Transport) is preparing regulations that would require spill response plans for vessels and marine facilities handling bulk hazardous cargoes. Plan holders would be required to develop a risk-based decision support process. For more details, see http://dms.dot.gov/search/searchResultsSimple.cfm docket no. 4354.
- In the UK, the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations, bring into force the requirements of the so-called Seveso II directive. This requires operators of COMAH sites to prepare safety cases with significantly increased focus on the impact of accidents on the environment and to develop emergency response plans. For sites involving chemical handling at jetties, this can include consideration of marine chemical spills.
Carechem Marine provides a valuable tool to meet all of these requirements.
