Response Organizations Regulations

12 (1) The operator of an oil handling facility shall demonstrate in the oil pollution emergency plan that the operator has the capability to comply with the requirements relating to the procedures, equipment and resources referred to in section 13.

(2) An oil handling facility’s oil pollution emergency plan shall include the following information:

• (a) the policies that the operator of the oil handling facility will follow in the event of an oil pollution incident;

• (b) in respect of each group of oil products that are loaded or unloaded to or from a ship at the oil handling facility and that, if spilled, would individually require a response similar to the appropriate response for every other oil product in the group, an oil pollution scenario that contains

  • (i) a description of the response in respect of the spill size determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards; and

  • (ii) the assumptions on which each scenario is based, taking into account the factors set out in section 3 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards;

• (c) a description of the activities that will be carried out in the event of an oil pollution incident, taking into account the priorities set out in section 4 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards, the time within which those activities will be carried out and the names of the persons responsible for carrying them out;

• (d) the types and quantity of equipment for use on scene during a response to an oil pollution incident at the oil handling facility in respect of the spill size that is determined in accordance with section 2 of the Oil Handling Facilities Standards;

• (e) the name of each person or body from which the equipment and resources will be obtained, in the event of an oil pollution incident, and the manner in which the equipment and resources will be deployed;

• (f) the name or position of the persons who are authorized and responsible for ensuring that the response to an oil pollution incident at the oil handling facility is immediate, effective and sustained;

• (g) the name of each person included in the personnel who has received basic oil pollution incident response training or any other training in relation to an oil pollution incident;

• (h) a description of the training that the operator of the oil handling facility provides to its personnel in preparation for the responsibilities that they might be requested to undertake in response to an oil pollution incident;

• (i) a description of the training that the operator of the oil handling facility plans to provide to its employees and to volunteers whom it might use to respond at short notice to an oil pollution incident;

• (j) an oil pollution incident exercise programme established to evaluate the effectiveness of all aspects of the procedures, equipment and resources that are identified in the oil pollution emergency plan, including exercises to be coordinated with ships, response organizations or the Canadian Coast Guard, as the case may be;

• (k) a description of the measures that the operator of the oil handling facility will take, in accordance with federal and provincial regulations relating to health and safety, to protect the health and safety of personnel, of volunteers and of other individuals who are involved, at the request of the operator, in responding to an oil pollution incident;

• (l) a description of procedures for the updating of the oil pollution emergency plan; and

• (m) a description of the manner in which the operator of the oil handling facility plans to respond to an oil pollution incident that involves a quantity of oil that is greater than the spill size referred to in paragraph (d) and that is scheduled to be transhipped, to a maximum of 10,000 t.

(3) An oil handling facility’s oil pollution emergency plan shall take into account any contingency plan for the area that is issued by the Canadian Coast Guard.