At the Jovellanos Centre, we assume this commitment by training people assigned to operations that involve loading, unloading and handling oil in maritime and port environments: harbours, ship-yards, oil rigs, ship scrapping operations, facilities that receive oil and any other maritime facility under Spanish sovereignty, sovereign rights or jurisdiction, whether the operations are performed by fixed, mobile, or floating means.
The provision of adequate technical means to deal with an oil spill does not, in itself, guarantee the success in the fight against pollution; however, the people in charge of them can provide that guarantee, together with those who, at different levels of responsibility, have to lead response groups.
The Jovellanos Centre, approved by the General Directorate of the Merchant Marine, provides training in the three levels regulated by Order FOM/555/2005 of March 2, to achieve the correct and safe response to marine pollution events, based on the basic structure of internal contingency plans:
- Preventing and Combating Pollution (Basic Operating Level): This course provides knowledge on spill prevention, containment and collection systems, the necessary equipment as well as its maintenance and repair.
- Preventing and Combating Pollution (Advanced Operating Level): This course provides the necessary knowledge on spill prevention, containment and collection systems, the necessary equipment, its maintenance and repair; in addition to human resources management techniques and logistics.
- Preventing and Combating Pollution (Higher Management Level): This course provides knowledge on decision-making, putting together and managing a crisis committee, as well as information and public relations techniques.