Counter pollution training courses

National training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response (LA01)

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Beach supervisor course (LA02)

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The Counter Pollution and Salvage (CPS) team offers two areas of training.

LA01 - National training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response

A three-day course for local authority management staff involved in contingency planning and oil spill response. The course is organised and run by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). To sign up, apply directly to the MCA to join one of the regional courses.

LA02 - Beach supervisor

A two-day course for local authority staff who may be involved in supervising beach clean-up operations and protective booming operations. The MCA provides this training course for individual local authorities or collaboratively with adjoining authorities on a request basis.

Both training courses are formally accredited by the Nautical Institute on behalf of the MCA. You can find out more information, and get the training materials for these courses, at ResilienceDirect. You will need to register to create an account.

1. 12 September 2024

   Plymouth dates for the national training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response (LA01) updated.

2. 22 March 2024

   Adding future dates for the national training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response (LA01).

3. 20 December 2023

   Removed dates for the LA01 - National training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response that have passed.

4. 5 September 2023

   Changing the location of one of the Oil pollution and contingency planning and response (LA01) courses from Llandudno to Caernarfon.

5. 10 May 2023

   Removed date of training course that has passed.

6. 31 January 2023

   New dates and venues added to the LA01 national training course on oil pollution, contingency planning and response.

7. 3 January 2023

   Removed November 2022 date for LA01 course from content as the session has now past.

8. 11 October 2022

   Information on counter pollution course content and dates of the next sessions updated. PDF files removed and replaced with accessible HTML documents. Form removed and email contact information added for users to get more information or apply to join the courses.

9. 19 July 2019

   Updated information note for 2019 and added an MS Word version of the application form

10. 5 July 2018

    Updated to the latest information note for 2018-19

11. 5 September 2017

    Updated the Information Note for the 2018 courses.

12. 1 February 2017

    Updated information note to show the latest hotel information

13. 8 November 2016

    Updated Information Note to reflect date changes for the Bristol course and to change the Lancaster course location to Blackpool.

14. 21 October 2016

    Updated with information note for 2016/17.

15. 24 July 2015

    Course Information Note for the 2015/16 courses has now been uploaded.

16. 1 May 2014

    First published.