Revision 2016
This GPG provides an overview of how oil spills can impact on marine and estuarine shorelines and how quickly they can recover. The document describes the fate of oil on different shorelines and the characteristics that are relevant to impacts and recovery, together with the ecological impacts of oil on shorelines. It outlines current best practice in shoreline clean-up, and summarizes some of the fundamental approaches and requirements of impact assessment.
An Incident Management System (IMS) is essential to optimizing response times and efficiency, providing clarity in command and control, improving resource coordination and communications, and facilitating the cooperation and integration of responding organizations.
This document is aimed at those persons responsible for ensuring that oil spill contingency plans are practised and verified, providing guidance on constructing an exercise programme that is suitable for meeting an organization’s or facility’s requirements.
This document identifies the principal health and safety issues when an oil spill occurs, their degree of severity and the practical steps to minimize the impact of the spill.
This guidance considers the effects of oil releases on fisheries, tourism and other commercial activities, and outlines available compensation schemes.