Ensure your spill responders are up to date with spill control techniques and legislation

“Major pollution incidents can in many cases be prevented if appropriate pollution prevention measures are taken at an early stage. Planning is the key to success, and both preventative measures and incident response strategies need to be carefully addressed.” Environment Agency (EA)

Your spill responders are your most valuable asset in ensuring protection of your site and the environment from pollution incidents. As legislation changes and enhancements are made in spill prevention products it is critical that spill responders and environmental officers are aware of this. The effectiveness of your sites spill prevention strategy and response plan is greatly influenced by staff training.

What does a spill training programme provide:

• The knowledge and skills needed to safely manage spills on site


• Understanding of the environmental responsibility of your business


• An awareness of the potential risks associated with liquid spills


• Strategies that should be adopted to reduce spill risk


• The safe and effective use of spill control resources and personal protective equipment


• Techniques to recover or limit the escape of spilt liquids into the environment


• Reporting procedures if spills contaminate surface water, ground water or land

Consideration must also be given of course to the immediate, short, medium and long term risks of failing to deal with spillages comprehensively as soon after the event as possible. Darcy can tell you all you need to know to ensure environmental agreed standards are known and applied.

Please click on the links below for full details on each of our oil and chemical spill response training courses offered.

• Oil Spill Response Training (more info) covering legislation and response methods to oil spills


• Chemical Spill Response Training (more info) covering legislation and response methods to chemical spills


• Combined Oil and Chemical Spill Response Training (more info) covering legislation and response methods to oil and chemical spills


• Inland Oil Spill Response Training (more info) - A full day comprehensive training course on oil spill response.


• Tailored Spill Response Training (more info) to meet your individual requirements for oil and chemical spill, legislation and response methods


• Toolbox Talk (more info) - Advice and guidance on the best use of spill kits for emergency spill response

Course topics include:

• Legislation, regulations and fines


• Health and safety


• Impact of spills on the environment


• Correct storage, handling and transport of liquids


• Range of absorbent products available and best use


• Theory and application of a spill response plan


• Practical spill exercise


• Debrief, review and recommendations

Benefits of investing in spill response training:

• Assists towards ISO14001 and Investors In People


• Meet with regulations including Pollution Prevention Guidelines (PPG21) and Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (COMAH)


• Forms part of your Pollution Incident Response Plan


• Ensures familiarity with your Emergency Plan


• Reduced likelihood of a pollution incident


• Significant reduction in costs associated with spill clean up

Darcy has developed a range of spill control training courses in line with customer demand. Our courses can be undertaken on site or at our training facilities across the UK. For further details please consult our sales support team on 01732 843131


Our training courses are certificated and are accredited to the BSIF Quality Mark For Training and meet with PPG 21: Incident Response Planning