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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Organise resources
   • Identify and organise response equipment through appropriate channels, in accordance with organisational procedures
   • Make arrangements for the transport of resources and personnel to oiled shoreline clean up site
   • Establish onsite support for personnel, in accordance with organisational procedures
2. Terminate response
   • Personnel are debriefed at conclusion of the incident, in accordance with organisational procedures
   • Equipment is returned to designated areas, as required
   • Post spill reports are completed and submitted to relevant personnel
   • Records are collected, collated, checked and forwarded to appropriate personnel, in accordance with organisational procedures
3. Establish the shoreline response unit
   • Determine the size and structure of the oiled shoreline response unit
4. Deploy appropriate staff to assist in the clean up response, in accordance with organisational procedures
5. Implement a site induction that incorporates safe systems of work, communication methods, hierarchy of roles and reporting systems used within the incident management system
6. Identify any training that may need to be implemented
7. Plan clean up operations
   • Identify hazards and assess risks relevant to the operation and ensure safe systems of work are implemented, in accordance with organisational procedures
8. Establish priorities for shoreline protection and clean up based on data and reports received
9. Sector and segment shoreline for identification and management of clean up zone
10. Implement clean up methods appropriate to environmental conditions
    • Identify and organise response equipment through appropriate channels, in accordance with organisational procedures
11. Make arrangements for the transport of resources and personnel to oiled shoreline clean up site
12. Establish onsite support for personnel, in accordance with organisational procedures
13. Establish worksite management zones
    • Implement a three zone system to control access and activities around the incident control centre
14. Organise appropriate security for oiled shoreline and incident control centre
15. Establish a decontamination centre
16. Manage waste from clean up
    • Develop and implement ways to minimise waste
17. Establish temporary waste holding areas that allow for safe containment and appropriate segregation of waste
18. Arrange for the removal of waste from temporary to permanent storage, in accordance with relevant legislation
19. Deploy and monitor work teams
    • Develop and communicate work orders to relevant personnel, in accordance with organisational procedures
20. Brief teams and allocate tasks relating to relevant timeframe and role to be performed
21. Monitor work situation on a regular basis for effectiveness and safety performance of task
22. Maintain accurate logs to record actions and decisions made at site
23. Review and change plans, as required, in accordance with organisational procedures
    • Personnel are debriefed at conclusion of the incident, in accordance with organisational procedures
24. Equipment is returned to designated areas, as required
25. Post spill reports are completed and submitted to relevant personnel
26. Records are collected, collated, checked and forwarded to appropriate personnel, in accordance with organisational procedures

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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