Carechem Marine
24-hour advice for marine chemical incidents. Rapid, accurate and reliable advice is essential for the safe and effective management of all marine chemical spills. Carechem Marine provides everyone involved in the marine transport of chemicals with a unique service: 24-hour marine chemical emergency support and consultancy services backed up by one of the world"s leading chemical spill software products.
NCEC is known internationally as a centre providing information, assistance and advice on the safe handling and transport of chemical substances. With NCEC as part of your response team, you can benefit from:
- The experience of a team of trained chemical Emergency Responders dealing daily with chemical incidents for over 30 years
- 24-hour support during marine chemical incidents and reassurance from knowing that ANY call is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Advice on the trajectory and fate of marine chemical spills, based on the ChemSIS model
- Advice on aquatic impacts - ChemSIS predicts aquatic toxicity resulting from a spill of chemicals that might influence fisheries or other marine environmental resources
- Advice on hazardous vapour clouds. The evaporation rates from Chemsis are entered into atmospheric modelling software packages to provide estimates of the extent of hazardous vapour clouds both in terms of toxicity and explosivity
- A fully international service
- Built-in regimen of exercises
- Specific procedures for your company so that it fits into your emergency plans
Subscribing to Carechem Marine means that your responders do not have to undergo constant training on different models. It also allows them to concentrate on dealing with the incident rather than spending valuable time running the models.
Training and exercises are an important element in ensuring a successful response operation. NCEC can also work with your response team to design or participate in spill response exercises. The service is tailored to fit in with your emergency plans and has in-built exercises that allow your responders to understand what to expect from the service in a crisis.