Response to accidents at sea involving spills of hazardous

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substances and loss of packaged dangerous goods

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Purpose and scope

1.2 General first response to chemical accidents

1.3 Behaviour of chemicals

1.4 Selection of response measures with regard to physical properties

1.5 Information sheets

1.6 Manuals and handbooks on response to maritime accidents

involving chemicals and dangerous goods

Chapter 2 Predicting the drift and spread of chemical spills

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Gas clouds

2.3 Floating spills

2.4 Dissolved spills in the water body

2.5 Sinking spills

2.6 Forecasting modelling systems

Chapter 3 Monitoring and body protection

3.1 Gas monitoring by portable instruments

3.2 Monitoring the water column

3.3 Monitoring surface spills

3.4 Monitoring sunken substances on the seabed

3.5 Miscellaneous monitoring methods

3.6 Levels of body protection during chemical accidents

Chapter 4 Sampling

4.1 General

4.2 Sampling chemical spills on the water surface

4.3 Sampling chemical spills in the water column

4.4 Taking samples from sunken chemicals

4.5 Taking samples on beaches and from smeared animals

4.6 Taking samples from packages

4.7 Taking samples on board vessels

4.8 Handling of samples

4.9 Example of a form for Request for Analysis

HELCOM Manual on Co-operation in Response to Marine Pollution within the

framework of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of

the Baltic Sea Area (Helsinki Convention), Volume 2, 1 December 2002

Contents-2

Chapter 5 Techniques for corrective response to accidents involving

spills of hazardous substances in the marine environment

5.1 Gases and evaporators

5.2 Chemicals that float on the water surface

5.3 Chemicals that dissolve in water

5.4 Chemicals that sink to the bottom

5.5 Chemicals that react with water

5.6 Miscellaneous disposal methods

Chapter 6 Techniques for corrective response to accidents involving

lost packaged dangerous goods in the marine environment

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Examples of packagings and containers

6.3 Labelling and marking of dangerous goods

6.4 Behaviour of packages in seawater

6.5 Safety precautions

6.6 Salvage of floating packaged goods

6.7 Salvage operations involving sunken packaged goods

6.8 Packages washed ashore

6.9 Salvage of packages from sunken craft

6.10 Chemical warfare agents

Annex 1 First response actions in chemical accidents

Annex 2 Chemical resistance of materials

Annex 3 Case histories of marine chemical accidents

Annex 4 Classification of chemical spills in water

and connection to related response methods

Annex 5 Body protection levels

Annex 6 International labelling of dangerous goods

Annex 7 Conversion table for measurement units

Annex 8 References