Oil Spill Clean Up Response 2: Countermeasures On Land

Countermeasures on Land is the second in a five-part training series on Oil Spill Response training. This oil spill video program, created with the assistance of the U.S. Coast Guard, provides important health and safety information for cleanup workers; and provides information consistent with OSHA and USCG regulations. This oil spill response training focuses on countermeasures taken on land, and includes the ecological impact of oil spills on land and along the shoreline; possible contingency plans; control activities and spill countermeasures: low and high pressure washing, sand blasting, soil washing, physical removal, mechanical removal, vacuum pumping, use of sorbents, degradation and bioremediation..