Spill Response: Running Fast to Stand Still

Imagine your office on most any day. Now imagine 300-plus people rushing in to contend with an unfolding incident, the specifics of which are frustratingly vague. Can you see the miles of boom, the skimmers, the all terrain vehicles ferrying HAZMAT-clothed engineers along the shore, and the heat sensor satellite images projecting the landfall taped to a wall? Now imagine you are paying for all those people and all that equipment. What is more, how they perform might well dictate your future.
When a spill occurs, the response needs to be swift and well coordinated.
The simple fact is that a spill of any significance in North America, if not the world, will change your life – today, tomorrow, and for months and maybe years to come. Within hours, you will have hundreds of “new employees” – many of whom will not know who you are. Complicating matters more are the many interests at work, not all of them yours.

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