BHP Billiton Ltd is a global company with assets based in the UK, Middle East, Africa, Australia and the Americas. These global activities are managed from four centres and include oil and gas exploration, drilling, construction, production and transport operations. As such, a need was recognised within the organisation to standardise each operations approach to emergency response management.
BHP Billiton commissioned Asia-Pacific ASA (APASA) to prepare an Oil Spill Response Manual to be used by all of their management centres as a guideline to writing and maintaining Oil Spill Contingency Plans. The guidelines manual was not designed to be used in the event of a spill, but to ensure that all of the company's oil spill contingency plans are standardized for each global operation. The manual is broad in scope to cover the geographic diversity of their operations and provides checklists to meet a variety of preparedness and response considerations.
The guidelines manual includes:
- BHP Billiton's organisational structure and management processes.
- Explanation of the roles in an emergency response situation, following the Incident Command System (ICS) structure.
- Step by step checklists for each Oil Spill Response Team role.
- Forms used by emergency response personnel to assist in the flow of information, resource management and incident status.
- Toolkits to assist in decision making.The ICS structure is a flexible system, which provides for rapid expansion or reduction in the size of the response team according to different response needs. This has been adopted throughout BHP Billiton, ensuring an integrated company-wide response.
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