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Guidance: Counter pollution training courses

Maritime Coastguard Agency

September 5
10:54 2023

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The Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS) team offers two areas of training.

LA01 National training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response

A three-day course for local authority management staff involved in contingency planning and oil spill response. The course is organised and run by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). To sign up, apply directly to the MCA to join one of the regional courses.

LA02 Beach supervisor

A two-day course for local authority staff who may be involved in supervising beach clean-up operations and protective booming operations. The MCA provides this training course for individual local authorities or collaboratively with adjoining authorities on a request basis.

Both training courses are formally accredited by the Nautical Institute on behalf of the MCA. You can find out more information, and get the training materials for these courses, at ResilienceDirect. You will need to register to create an account.

Published 1 May 2014
Last updated 5 September 2023 +show all updates
  1. Changing the location of one of the Oil pollution and contingency planning and response (LA01) courses from Llandudno to Caernarfon.

  2. Removed date of training course that has passed.

  3. New dates and venues added to the LA01 national training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response.

  4. Removed November 2022 date for LA01 course from content as the session has now past.

  5. Information on counter pollution course content and dates of the next sessions updated. PDF files removed and replaced with accessible HTML documents. Form removed and email contact information added for users to get more information or apply to join the courses.

  6. Updated information note for 2019 and added an MS Word version of the application form

  7. Updated to the latest information note for 2018-19

  8. Updated the Information Note for the 2018 courses.

  9. Updated information note to show the latest hotel information

  10. Updated Information Note to reflect date changes for the Bristol course and to change the Lancaster course location to Blackpool.

  11. Updated with information note for 2016/17.

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