WORKING GROUPS REPORT Our working groups are proving a good method for members to direct the activity of the Association to their benefit/interest. They meet at least quarterly and help to direct the work of the Association!
MARINE AND MANUFACTURERS WORKING GROUP (NINE MEMBER COMPANIES) We have been working with members to optimise the opportunity attendance at Interspill presents inJune. We are going to be hosting a Britain is Great Day on Weds 22 June! The group is working on a draft standard for temporary tanks used in spill response. Once we have developed this standard we will then concentrate on using the same format of document for skimmers. We are also planning an onwater Marine Event in late September or October.
INSURANCE WORKING GROUP (6 MEMBER COMPANIES) The group sent a reasonably strong set of suggestions for amended text to Land Contamination Risk Management in December 2021. These particularly requested rewording the text in the section titled ‘Deal with new pollution’. We are particular to see removal of the words ‘return the site to its original state’. The group have suggested: ‘suitably mitigate identified impacts to health and the environment and other identified receptors’ where appropriate comply with the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (UKEireSpill which require a risk assessment process to be followed) When LCRM Stage 1 talks about remediation it does not encourage the
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