Responsible Party / Response Organization Relationship
A response is normally characterized by the emergence of four critical challenges. They are Casualty, Community, Corporate, and Clean Up. The Responsible Party (RP) is responsible for the management of these four critical challenges and in Canada, in ECRC's geographic area of response, the RP can look to ECRC to handle most of the Clean-up activities.
- The RP has responsibility for the Casualty, whether a vessel or shore facility. This includes salvage, protection, security, safety, return to service and all other concerns about the source of the spill.
- The RP has responsibility for the Community concerns. This includes media and government relations, insurance and claims, community response efforts, evacuations (which are usually controlled by the authorities on behalf of the RP), etc.
- The RP is also solely responsible for the Corporate concerns. This may include how the event will impact on the financial health of the company, the impact on shareholder confidence, public and government relations, legal concerns and implementing a business resumption plan.
- The RP has responsibility for the Clean Up activities; however, they may assign to the ECRC the operational responsibility to carry out approved marine oil spill response services.
The following diagram demonstrates the relationship that exists between the Responsible Party (RP) and the
Response Organization.
ECRC’s Spill Management System (SMS) provides ECRC’s Spill Management Team (SMT) with a a structure to facilitate the efficient provision of approved marine oil spill response services and a system for information exchange. It identifies a functional structure, a series of common actions and meetings, a common operational language, and prescribed status reports and plans of actions to encourage a unified management effort that will carry the response through the phases of response.
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