This IMO Level 1 model course for operational staff - First Responders on Oil Spill Response and Preparedness – has been developed and designed to be conducted as an intensive, 5 day training course with approximately half of the course time in the form of practical exercises.
This training course will deal with the essential upgrade of knowledge of delegates to fully understand the fate and behaviour of oil and chemical spills in the marine and coastal environments and how to combat such spills.
This course is divided into modules which may be taught individually or in blocks, with corresponding exercises (classroom, demonstrations or real life practice).
Most of the objectives in the theoretical part of the course are knowledge objectives, whereas the practical training objectives are skills objectives.
Each of the lessons in the course has a clearly stated lesson objective, stating what the students will be able to do after each lesson. The Enabling Objectives (EOs) clearly state what the students can be expected to do during the lesson. All objectives are clearly verifiable with indicators. For the exercises found in the practical exercise module (Module 5), the specific skills to be attained by the students during the exercises are stated with indicators and conditions.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit: