Spill Response

Train the Trainer

ISAS-accredited Spill Response Training course where GPT can train key personnel to deliver spill response training so that they can distribute it through your workforce.

Spill Response Training

Train the Trainer

Spill kits are a vital part of pollution prevention, but their effectiveness relies heavily on trained personnel who understand both how to use them and the importance of environmental protection. Without immediate, trained action, a small incident can quickly escalate into a serious pollution event.

For large workforces or organizations with complex shift patterns, a Train the Trainer course offers a cost-effective solution to ensure consistent, high-quality spill response training across all teams.

This course equips key staff - such as Environmental Managers, Health & Safety Managers, Internal Trainers, and Team Leaders - to deliver spill response training internally. By the end of this course, your trainers will be equipped to deliver consistent, site-relevant spill response training across your workforce.

Key Details:

Duration: 1 day (approximately 8 hours)
Maximum Delegates: Up to 8 per session
Location: Conducted on your site
Format: Combination of classroom learning and practical demonstrations
Customisation: Tailored to your site-specific risks and needs
Discounts: Available for multiple sessions
Accreditations: Accredited by the International Spill Accreditation Scheme (ISAS)

What's Covered

Each session typically includes both a classroom presentation and a practical demonstration. Key topics include

Environmental Responsibility: Understand your company’s environmental policy and why protection matters
Site Hazards: Identify on-site risks and how they impact people and the environment.
Local Sensitivities: Recognize nearby environmental risks (e.g. SSSI)
Pollution Initiative: Overview of the Environment Agency’s Pollution Prevention Pays campaign (with video).>
Legal Framework: Key legislation and industry best practices for spill management.>
Case Studies: Reviewing real-life incidents highlighting the health, safety, environmental, and financial consequences of poor spill management.
Spill Safety: How to stay safe, select appropriate PPE/RPE, and use MSDSs.
Incident Reporting: Proper procedures for notifying the EA and sewerage undertakers.
Response Actions: Step-by-step guidance for managing a spill (includes video simulation).
Procedure Practice: Walkthrough of your internal spill response protocols.
Spill Kit Overview: Classroom demonstration of spill kit contents and use.
Hands-on Clean up: Practical session cleaning up a real spill using a spill kit.

Training sessions are bespoke, ensuring your team understands the specific risks relevant to your operations, whether you work in distribution, manufacturing, food production, or other industries.

Industry Specific

We understand that different sectors face different risks:

Distribution Depots: Typically dealing with fuel spillages.
Industrial Sites: Risks from aggressive chemicals like caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.
Food Manufacturing: Risks from organic substances such as milk, beer, and cream.

We tailor each training session to address the relevant hazards and controls appropriate for your site.

Substance Specific

Oil Spill Training

For many industrial sites the main risk of pollution is presented by oils. We can focus our training to ensure we cover the range of health and safety risks posed by oils, from exposure causing injuries to skin such as dermatitis and more severe health risks such as cancer, to oils posing other risks including fire hazards for flammable oils such as petrol.

Chemical Spill Training

For most sites the highest health and safety risks in the event of a spill are posed by chemicals, certain sites will hold corrosives such as hydrochloric acid or caustic soda but even sites with less severe chemicals will pose a substantial health and safety risk. We will train staff to deploy chemical spill kits and use any other containment measures on site to reduce the chances of a spill causing injury and an environmental incident.

Foodstuff Spill Training

The damage posed by substances such as milk, cream, beer, fruit juice and glucose can be devastating to the environment. Naturally occurring bacteria break down foodstuffs entering a watercourse, using up oxygen in the water and leading to fish suffocating. It is therefore imperative that staff working on sites with pollution risks caused by organic spills understand the risks these substances pose, and how to contain spills in a safe and effective manner.

Our training follows environmental regulator recommendations, covering:

Awareness of the harm materials can cause to people and the environment.
Understanding the site's environmental sensitivity.
Your business’s environmental responsibilities.
Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE).
Procedures for reporting incidents involving surface water, groundwater, or land contamination.
Reporting to local water/sewerage authorities where applicable.
Safe and effective use of spill clean-up equipment and structures.
Correct handling and legal disposal of contaminated materials and waste.
Safe decontamination practices post-spill.

By providing professional, site-specific spill response training, GPT Environmental ensures your staff are ready to respond effectively, protecting your employees, your site, and the environment. Contact us to schedule a session for your team.