The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's (BSEE) national oil spill response research and renewable energy test facility, Ohmsett, in partnership with the Texas A&M National Spill Control School, held the Oil Spill Response Strategies and Tactics Training course this week. Fourteen attendees representing the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Uruguay traveled to the Ohmsett facility in Leonardo, N.J. to participate in this four-day course where participants increased their spill response proficiency by using boom and skimmers to practice removing spilled oil.
With a combination of classroom instruction and hands-on tank exercises, students learned contingency planning, fates and effects of spilled oil, how to set up an incident command system, what strategies to use during a spill and what equipment to deploy for successful response operations. Upon completion of the course, students received a Certification of Completion from the National Spill Control School.
More information about Ohmsett can be found here.
More information about the Texas A&M National Spill Control School can be found here: http://nscs.tamucc.edu/
