SPONSORS OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT FEATURE
Major Emergency Incident Management Centre opened in Aberdeen
ALTOR RISK GROUP INVESTS £250,000 IN STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY A new emergency response hub for the oil and gas industry has been built and commissioned in Aberdeen, delivering modern crisis management facilities for exploration and production operators, service and support companies, and creating at least ten new jobs.
Altor, the global risk management group headquartered in the Granite City, has invested £250,000 in the development of the centre at Lord Cullen House, Fraser Place, on the site adjacent to the Health & Safety Executive’s regional base.
FACILITIES The DECC (Department of Environment and Climate Change) approved incident management centre which has created 8 new jobs includes a high specification emergency response control room facility, using the latest communications and management technologies, and associated support services for companies operating in challenging environments on and offshore in the North Sea and beyond.
The centre will provide 24/7 support to companies in the event of an emergency situation, including a pool of specialist responders, effective practical training exercises and simulations, advice and consultancy.
ENSURING LESSONS LEARNED Global asset tracking and command, control and information management software systems will allow responders to make decisions based on real-time information, and log every step of an incident to ensure lessons can be learned at every stage of an incident.
EXPERIENCED RESPONSE OPERATIVES Altor has recruited some of the most experienced incident management and emergency response operatives in the country to run and staff the centre.
Crisis management and logistics specialist Andrew Couper, a former British Army staff officer who has more than 25 years’ experience in emergency planning and managing emergency response control rooms, was appointed in May to set up and manage the centre.
Previously co-ordinator of the multi-agency emergency risk assessment, planning and response group for the Grampian Police force area, Mr Couper will oversee the development, management and promotion of the centre.
He explained: “Major events in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico have underlined the importance of planning for and testing various scenarios to ensure that an organisation is well equipped to deal with any potential situation.
“An effective response to an incident is dependent on a wide range of factors of which the incident management centre itself is only one. These factors are all carefully considered in our approach to preparing procedures, training and responding.
“The availability and participation of professionals who have experience of responding to and handling real emergencies, and are familiar with how to work with agencies and the wide ranging communications needed when dealing with a major incident, is crucial in any crisis.
With both established oil and gas operators and new entrants pushing the boundaries in terms of production there are ever-increasing operational and environmental risks. There is rightly an increasing scrutiny on the ability of companies to respond and we believe that more competition and capacity in this specialist marketplace will be welcomed by the industry.”
COMPLETE RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE Established in July 2010 by Jim Walker Altor Risk Group has offices in Aberdeen, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Perth, Australia. The company provides a complete risk management service and has secured work from organisations around the world including Apache, BP, Shell, Perenco, Premier Oil and Maersk Oil, as well as national oil companies such as the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Pertamina (Indonesia) and CNOOC.
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