Incident Response
Having provided on-site support at over 50 incidents across six continents across a range of capacities and functions, Marittima has many years of experience in dealing with the complex environmental, social and governance issues that interplay during a marine incident and its response. There is a growing demand to monitor and report on the impact of a marine incident and and its response on environmental, social and governance-related systems – or indeed how these systems may impact the effectiveness and costs of a response. Marittima has been an early adviser on the development and adoption of systematic frameworks that are consistent with corporate sustainability requirements yet accommodate the unique and unplanned nature of marine incidents. We have developed a practical framework that addresses all of the necessary sustainability components that one may encounter on a casualty, not all of which will apply in every case.
- On-site crisis management and oversight of a response
- Pollutant risk assessment: analysis on fate, behaviour and trajectory of polluting substances
- Development and oversight of strategic and tactical response plans
- Environmental monitoring
- Advice on resource procurement
- Review of contractor proposals and rates
- Stakeholder liaison
- Identification and management of environmental and socioeconomic risks
On-site sustainability consultant and support at all stages of the response for insurers, contractors or government agencies:
- Stakeholder liaison and on-site management of environmental and socioeconomic associated with an incident;
- Assessment, mitigation and monitoring of sustainability related risks associated with a casualty and response;
- Technical oversight and development of waste management plans;
- Development and implementations of socioeconomic and environmental monitoring plans and impact assessments;
- Due diligence review of proposed plans and contractors from a technical and cots perspective;
- Monitoring key sustainability indicators throughout project for final reporting;
- Technical expert for arbitration cases.
Sustainability Assurance Auditor for insurers and government agencies for each phase of a response project (pollution response and wreck removals):
- Assessment of sustainability related risks for a particular project;
- Preparation of the sustainability portion of the ITT bespoke for the project;
- Assessment of the various contractors Sustainability Management Plan as part of the contractor selection process
- Monitoring of the contractor’s sustainability performance during the project;
- Auditing of contractor’s final sustainability report and production of an auditor’s report for the insurer
- Fisheries characterisation studies and claims assessment.
- Post-incident environmental impact monitoring and impairment assessment.
- Innovative approach to environmental restoration based on scientific data, local policy aims and focus on complementing existing and locally relevant blue economy policies, conservation arrangements, projects and goals.