Training & Preparation

Black Gold has expertise in the delivery of corporate and field operations training to our clients to ensure their personnel are able to demonstrate leadership and control in an emergency situation. Black Gold has the professional training and expertise to facilitate full scale on-site mobilization drills, corporate and field table top exercises, drilling & completion well site emergency response plan review meetings, and informative regulatory training sessions. Provision of training services is headed up by our Senior Training Coordinator (who is Incident Command Structure (ICS) level 400 certified) in conjunction with Jason Swan.


Training Requirements
The licensee must provide regular training sessions to ensure that its personnel are capable to respond competently in emergency response situations. The licensee is expected to provide ERP training on;

 
  • the overall plan,
  • roles and responsibilities during an incident,
  • public protection measures used during an emergency, and
  • available communication methods.

 

Exercise Requirements
The licensee must test its ERPs through the following types of planned exercises to promote emergency response preparedness:

 
  • tabletop or communications exercise, held annually for each area ERP, except in a year when a major exercise is held, and
  • full scale mobilization exercise, held once every three years for each area ERP.