Latin America Onshore Oil Spills
A recurring problem in Latin America are onshore pipelines oil spills due to different causes like corrosion or sabotage. Whatever the cause, the oil spill needs to be controlled, and the oil and land need to be recovered. Oil spills may cause serious environmental impact, may produce major interruptions to the business, and put communities that live in the surrounding regions at high risk. All of this demands hard work and requires a lot of resources (e.g. personnel, time and money).
Business Leaders are responsible for ensuring the safety of its employees, as well as continuing to provide jobs for them, and products or services to their customers. This is why organizations should be prepared to face these types of risks by having the corresponding plans in place to guide a “successful response”: an Emergency Response Plan, a Business Continuity Plan, and a Crisis Management Plan.
Moreover, a successful response requires having properly trained personnel, the right equipment, and most importantly, a suitable system in place to manage the response. This system must be divided into two parts, tactical and strategical, and each of them requires a specific design of processes and tools.
The Incident Command System (ICS) is the required system for the tactical and operational portion of the response. The ICS provides the perfect process to produce a well-organized response, and the right tools to facilitate this process. The British Standards BS 11200-2014 and BS 25999-1 provide an understanding of the key issues, and a situational awareness to deal with processes at the strategic level. These processes and tools conform what CCG calls an “Integrated Contingency and Crisis Management System”. This is an Integrated Management System that involves emergency response, business continuity, and crisis management, all in one system. This is the right way to protect responders and the community, and to save time and money.
Author: CCG Team
