Response Preparedness Division
Training Department
Our site is unique and specially equipped to train response personnel for accidental pollution on the shoreline and in ports and harbours. Responders can thus become familiar with real spills of pollutants in complete safety, thanks to our 6,000 m² beach and 4,000 m³ deep-water basin for floatation devices. A wide range of response equipment and products can thus be tested in real-life situations by the trainees.
A team of professional trainers regularly organises training courses, in French and English, on management and response to oil and chemicals spills at sea, in ports and harbours, on the shoreline and in inland waters.
For more information, see the Training section.
Practical training: protecting an outflow pipe
Information Department
The information and documentation activity is a cross-disciplinary element which permanently keeps abreast of spill response knowledge. In order to fulfil the recommendations made by the CIADT in February 2000 in terms of the reinforcement of information and international cooperation means, Cedre provides information in the form of printed, electronic and photographic documents on all aspects of spill response.
It maintains a specialised resource centre with over 5,000 books and nearly 3,000 reports as well as a photo library containing over 8,000 photos. This collection is available to the public and is therefore able to provide answers to the many inquiries received from scientists, associations, the media, school pupils and professors.
Cedre publishes a monthly newsletter, a regular bulletin as well as operational and chemical response guides available in printed format and as PDF files which can be downloaded from the Publications section of this website.
Cedre's library
Contingency Planning Department
Through a large number of assignments as technical advisers for response operations in the field and alongside crisis managers, Cedre has been able to accumulate a solid experience in terms of operational and organisational response.
This applied knowledge ensures greater relevance of risk analysis, the definition of spill scenarios and the establishment of response strategies, as well as a certain credibility in the selection of response techniques and equipment.
The skills of Cedre’s contingency planning team are regularly exploited, for the centre’s public and private partners, through contingency plans which it develops in complete accordance with the requirements of governments or local authorities for their shorelines and/or of industry stakeholders and/or ports for their on land installations, maritime terminals or offshore fields.
Cedre’s experience, consideration of the context of the plan and the analysis effort carried out with key site stakeholders enable the development of operational plans which integrate the recommendations issued by IPIECA (International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association) and IMO (the International Maritime Organization).
These plans are the first element in the preparedness of an entity for response to an oil spill. Training courses and exercises conducted on site to train personnel and equipment selection complete these plans.
Crisis managers will draw on these components in the first hours following an incident to rapidly, efficiently, rationally and operationally organise operations.
Some of the contingency plans produced by Cedre since 2006 for sites around the world can be viewed by clicking on the map opposite.
World map of Cedre training courses
Practical training: riprap clean-up
Cedre's publications
Sonara wharf (source: Cedre)
World map of contingency plans produced by Cedre