Coastal oil spill response (OSR) is often an arduous long-term operation, and volunteers can offer authorities valuable help. In OIL SPILL, one aim was to enhance the procedures and practicalities in this collaboration. The Finnish Red Cross led the work dealing with educational activities of non-governmental organizations in cooperation with competent authorities.
To celebrate the Baltic Sea Day and raise awareness about marine pollution, OIL SPILL organized a webinar with Keep the Archipelago Tidy Association and POPCORN project. …
Tiesitkö, että vapaaehtoiset voivat tarjota viranomaisille merkittävää tukea öljyntorjuntatehtävissä? Entä mitä tiedät Suomen meriroskaongelmasta? Tervetuloa kuulemaan ja keskustelemaan lisää aiheista! Järjestämme nimittäin Itämeripäivän kunniaksi “Öljyvuotojen ja meriroskan torjunta Itämeren rannikolla”-webinaarin.
One of the main aims of the OIL SPILL project is to develop co-operation between volunteers and authorities in oil spill response. Tommi Virtanen, who works as Head of Preparedness at the Finnish Red Cross Southwest Finland district office, represented the voluntary organizations in the exercise management group. “Utilizing the expertise of the third sector depends most on the authority’s imagination and perhaps the courage to ask for help from these organizations…
Yesterday evening, a massive oil spill was spotted at the Finnish archipelago on the Southwest coast of Finland. Luckily, it is only an imaginary one and part of the Vellamo 2021 oil spill response (OSR) exercise organized by the Southwest Finland Emergency Services (SWFES). Vellamo is one of the main events of the OIL SPILL Project. It aims to test and practice how the local emergency services in our pilot area manages the response operation together with the OSR volunteers and in cooperation with international assistance.
The volunteer leaders of The Voluntary Rescue Service (Vapepa) are recommended to update their knowledge every three years in Finland. Annually a national supplementary training is organized for them by Finnish Red Cross. The theme is always different and this year it was large-scale and long-lasting emergencies, and we used oil spill response as an example. Altogether 50 voluntary leaders were trained online in two training sessions in February and March.
Welcome to an international OIL SPILL webinar on oiled wildlife response! The event is organized in collaboration with OIL SPILL Associated Organizations …
On Wednesday evening, 3 February 2021, over 20 interested participants from different Baltic Sea Region countries joined our webinar on volunteer management in oil spill response. See the webinar recording, here, or download the presentations as pdf files at the end of this text.
Welcome to an international OIL SPILL webinar on voluntary oil spill response on 3 February 2021. In this webinar, you will hear …
Coastal oil spill response is an arduous long-term operation. Voluntary oil spill response capability is critical in achieving optimal results and minimizing …
