Managing Marine Emergencies

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Managing Marine Emergencies

• High Level Management

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Govt Decision IRCG

• Marine Casualties
• IRCG co-ordinates and directs all marine
  emergency casualty response
• Salvage plan approval/monitoring/intervention
• At Sea Pollution Response
• IRCG co-ordinates and directs at sea pollution
  response
• Shoreline Pollution Response
• Directed and co-ordinated by the IRCG
• Shoreline cleanup carried out by local
  authorities
• Local Authorities/Ports must have a contingency
  plan and carryout training and exercises

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Role Responsibilities Major Incident Response

• Lead Govt Department DTTAS
• Principal Support Role IRCG
• Local Authorities
• Other potential Support Roles
• CIL
• Harbour Masters
• Port Authorities
• DoD
• AGS
• HSE

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Economic health of the State depends on Shipping
Safe form of transport What can go
wrong? Collision Grounding Fire
Explosion Sinking Mechanical structural Failure
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As a result of an incidentImportant Question is
always

• Is there any Danger, damage, loss
• People
• Ship and Cargo
• Environment
• How to minimise

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Consider Where, What, How much, Impact
Population -Environment
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CONSIDER Type Bulk Carrier Tanker oil/LNG/LPG
Chemical/ Ore Bulk Oil Container
Vessel General Cargo Passenger Size Construction
Layout WT compartments Loading discharging
fac Power sources Cargo Type IMDG Quantity Liquid/
Solid How to shift Fuel/Bunkers
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• Type of vessel
• Stability of vessel/Cargo/Bunkers
• Location of the vessel
• Sand/rocky coastline
• Water depth
• Prevailing weather conditions
• Health Safety Security
• Population/Responders
• Environmental Sensitive areas
• Socio -Economic

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The Parties involved

• Ship Owner Manager
• The Ship Master
• Cargo interests
• Average adjuster
• P I insurance
• HM Insurance
• MSO
• Coast Guard
• Port Authority
• Local Authority
• Salvors
• Dept of Environment
• Dept of Agriculture
• NPWS
• Local Fishermen
• Local Tourism interests etc etc etc etc etc
• Local , National international Media

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Command and control managing the response to
amajor pollution incident from shipping
Major Shipping Pollution Incident Activate the
NCP

• Tier 1
• Tier 2
• Tier 3

   
Ship Casualty Co-ordinates and directs all
response issues IRCG
At Sea Pollution Response Co-ordinates
and directs at sea and aerial response
Operations IRCG
Shoreline Pollution Cleanup Directed and
co-ordinated by IRCG Shoreline Response Centre
Managed and manned by Local Authority
NMOC MRCC/MRSC Co-ordinates SAR IRCG
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Shore Response Centre
This group should comprise the major players and
responsible party
The above four functional groups can be made up
from authorities, insurers, contractors, oil
company personnel and others
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SHORELINE RESPONSE CENTRE
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Role Responsibilities Emergency Planning

• Lead Govt Department DTTAS
• Principal Support Role IRCG
• Local Authorities
• Other potential Support Roles
• CIL
• Harbour Masters
• Port Authorities
• DoD
• AGS
• HSE

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• Framework for Major Emergency Management

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Illustration of Co-ordination Centres During
Response
Level of Emergency Onsite Co-ordination Centre Local Co-ordination Centre Regional Co-ordination Centre Lead Govt Dept. Centre and/or NECC
Local Major Emergency On site Co-ordination Local Inter-agency Co-ordination
Regional Level Co-ordination On site Co-ordination Local Inter-agency Co-ordination Regional Co-ordination, but only if needed and appropriate Support role for local response May be better suited for measure of essential Co-ordination than Regional Centre
National Emergency Plan Monitoring Role Local Inter-agency Co-ordination Monitoring role Support for local response National Co-ordination
Beachmaster
Shore Response Centre
Framework Doc MEM page 44
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Major Emergency

• Major Emergency declared by authorised person of
  the PRA as a result of situation appraisal by the
  senior ranking officer of the emergency response
  teams on site.
• Local/Regional Emergency
• Incident Site
• PRA Controller of Operations at site of
  emergency
• Lead Agency specific PRA assigned Co-ordination
• On site Co-ordination Centre

Beachmaster/Incident Manager
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Major Emergency

• Crisis Management Team
• Strategic Level management group within each PRA
• Manage, control and co-ordinate Agencys response
• Support Controller of Operations
• Liaise with National HQs and Govt Depts on
  strategic issues
• Interagency Co-ordination Groups

IAMEAC in MER
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Major Emergency

• Regional Co-ordination Groups
• Regional Level emergency declared
• Mutual aid, support and co-ordination facilities
  activated within a region
• Regional Steering Group
• Single Regional Co-ordination Centre

Shore Response Centre
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Lead Govt. Dept.National Emergency Co-ordination
Centre

• Incident poses a threat to public safety or
  health, social and economic functioning, damage
  to infrastructure, property or to the environment
  on a scale that requires a co-ordinated national
  response
• Lead Govt Dept nominated to manage national level
  issues to ensure information is provided to the
  public
• Strategic Emergency Planning Guidance Document

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Lead Govt. Dept.National Emergency Co-ordination
Centre

• Role is to initiate the relevant national
  emergency crisis response and to provide the
  mechanism for appropriate co-ordination of a
  national level response and linking the local
  response as appropriate.
• Lead Govt Dept convenes the National
  Co-ordination Group.

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Lead Government Department

• Determine hierarchy of priorities
• Arrangements for information management
• Implement public information strategy thru
  Government Information Service
• Key information/message
• Manage information on Web sites monitor social
  media
• Co-ordination of Media messages various agencies
• Type of Media
• Briefings
• Local and/or National
• Subject matter Specialist Advice
• Briefing Ministers

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Clipper Cheyanne 2002
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SAR-Containment-Clean up-salvage
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SAR

• Harbour Master
• Ships Captain
• Coast Guard
• HSE -Ambulance

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Shoreline Response Centre
SRC
Planning Logistics Finance Operations Media
communications
Protection Containment Recovery Waste Disposal
ONSCENE
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Shore line Response CentreProtection
Containment Recovery

• Harbour Master
• Tier 2 responder company
• Local Authority