Marine Pollution Management Fundamentals
Details :
In light of increasing marine environment protection
imperatives, an updated and global understanding of the marine pollution
problem, as well as enhanced awareness of management systems should be a
priority to everyone involved with the shipping and offshore oil and gas
industries.
This training course provides an overview of marine
pollution agenda, with the focus on emerging trends, current management
systems, and ship-source pollution management. The course is designed to
provide a global approach to marine pollution management integrating, amongst
others, the human element, industry best practices, and recent developments on
the international level.
This course will feature:
- Fundamentals of marine environment protection and marine pollution
- Management systems and marine pollution
- Ship-source marine pollution management
- Proactive approaches and post-event strategies
- Topical issues
By the end of this training course,
participants will be able to:
- Identify the challenges relating to marine environment protection and
marine pollution management
- Develop familiarity with current trends and policies
- Improve their understanding of ship-source marine pollution management
- Identify hazards related to offshore oil and gas operations affecting
the marine environment
- Enhance their understanding of legal management of marine pollution
This course is suitable to a wide range of
professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Managers from the shipping and oil and gas industries
- Administrators in contact with the maritime industry
- Administrators involved with the implementation of international
regulations
- Jurists interested in the broader picture of marine pollution
- Technical personnel keen to develop familiarity with international
regulations and managerial practices
- Senior professionals interested in updates
- Market newcomers
Day One: Fundamentals
- Definitions, types of marine pollution and impacts
- Emerging trends: Sustainability and SDG (Sustainable Development Goal)
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- Precautionary principle, Polluter pays principle, Strict liability
- Ships and ports
- Pollution from the off-shore oil and gas sector
- Global and regional marine pollution management actions
Day Two: Management Systems and Marine
Pollution
- International standards/specifications relating to marine environment
protection
- International Safety Management (ISM) Code Overview
- Impact of the ISM Code on marine pollution management
- Managing the human factor through education and training
- Shift of marine pollution risk to underwriters
- Legal management of polluting incidents
Day Three: Ship-Source Marine Pollution
Management
- Marine pollution from bunkers and carriage of oil by sea
- Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP)
- Chemical Pollution
- Management of sewage aboard
- Garbage Management Plan
- Marine pollution management and ship recycling
Day Four: Proactive Approaches and
Post-Event Strategies
- International conventions
- Regional conventions
- Use of places of refuge
- Contingency planningon the national level
- Monitoring
- Post-event intervention
Day Five: Topical Issues
- Polar Code
- Air emissions from vessels
- Ballast water
- IMO Audit Scheme
- Decommissioning of offshore platforms
- Unmanned vessels
- All lectures are in colorful presentation
- All lectures are interspersed with interactive discussion
- All lectures include group discussion, case history and exercises
- Actual major incidents as well as industry experience are reviewed
- Participants receive a multicolor course manual
- Pictures of real incidents and case history are shown
- Videos on the subject are shown
daily 09:00 – 14:00