Oil Spill Response
Many of you have expressed interest and concern about what is happening with regard to sea turtles and BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, United States. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources has posted some links and documents which you can find at our home page: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/ For information on volunteering, see the volunteer link on the web page listed above.
There is now an online oil spill response training available. See detailed instructions below.
For those that may be interested in volunteering in the Gulf, this training is required for everyone who will be retrieving animals from the oiled environment and everyone who will be working to clean animals at designated animal intake facilities.
Additionally, if we have oil on our South Carolina coast, even people who do nesting surveys will have to go through the training in order to be on the beach conducting surveys.
More information regarding response plans and activities will be forthcoming.
TRAINING OFFERING FOR WILDLIFE RECOVERY & REHABILITATION PARAPROFESSIONALS
BP extends its sincere gratitude to you for volunteering to assist with the oil spill clean up. Your safety is important to BP and we are offering a choice of computer based training or classroom training.
This free training is required by BP and will provide you both awareness and safety information for this endeavor. There is a scored test with the training.
INFORMATION FOR TRAINING CLASSES
To sign up for a live training class in the Gulf Coast Region please call this number to enroll in training classes that are being offered in the Gulf Coast region – 1-866-647-2338.
INFORMATION FOR COMPUTER BASED TRAINING (CBT)
NOTE: When you have finished the training course, there will be a certificate page. Please be sure to print the certificate page and bring it with you to the site where you will be working.
Please read the following information before clicking on the link:
Overview of the training site:
When you are ready to enter the training site, click on this link to take you to the training page:
https://www2.virtualtrainingassistant.com/BPPublic/wc.dll?learner~cmenu
Go to "I'm a New Student" where a page will pop up for you to
self-register. Keep your log in and password info. There are 4 lesson modules in the training.
First lesson is an attestment that you are a qualified
wildlife
recovery paraprofessional. Should you not meet the qualifications listed, you will not be allowed to move further into the training.
Second lesson is the training CBT itself.
Third less on is the test (CBT Exam); you will need to score 80% on the test and will have three chances to pass.
Fourth lesson is the certificate that you should print and bring with you to the rehabilitation site.
Tips for maneuvering through the site:
Start, Run and Credit buttons will advance you through the
modules. Some computer setting "pop-up blockers" interfere with this
program, please read the information in the green box on the page to help solve this issue.
Tamara (Tami) Joslin
GoM SPU Organization Capability - Operations, HSSE and Engineering
465 WL4
P.O. Box 3092
Houston, TX 77253-3092
281-366-5853 (O)
281-831-0336 (C)
281 366 1930 (F)
Tamara.Joslin@bp.com