Witt O'Brien's conducted a virtual Annual Incident Management Team Tabletop Exercise (IMT TTX)* on March 30, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. This challenging exercise will test the interaction, communication, and problem-solving between the Incident Commander, Federal and State On-Scene Coordinators, and Incident Management Team (IMT) members, including the USCG, State Agencies, OSROs, SMFFs, the vessel operator’s representative, and other stakeholders in the critical stages of a vessel casualty.
NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis in the US and globally, we continue to put plans for our regular one-day IMT TTX seminars around the world on hold at this time, but are hopeful to resume them later this year
Therefore we will once again develop an e-Learning course that covers the virtual IMT TTX carried out in Fort Lauderdale to allow each plan holder to participate in the seminar and satisfy their IMT TTX compliance for 2022.
The 2021 e-Learning course remains available for now and may be completed at any time before June 1, 2022, when we anticipate having the 2022 e-Learning course available. Please contact us at imtttx@wittobriens.com to register for the course.
[Access e-Learning here: https://learning.wittobriens.com/]
Separately in 2021, we conducted two separate three-part series of 60-minute webinars to provide “Regulatory Updates” similar to what we did in 2020. Our last webinar in this series was held on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. The replay links for all six are available below.
- 9 December 2021: Alternative Planning Criteria (APC), Vessel Pro, and USCG Preparedness of Response Exercise Program (PREP) Compliance https://event.webinarjam.com/go/replay/299/8vvlkhq9b9mc7nto
- 18 November 2021: Ballast Water Management Implementation and Enforcement, Exhaust Gas Scrubbers in US waters, and the 2013 Vessel General Permit (VGP) https://event.webinarjam.com/go/replay/299/0vvlrh6rcw7ax3f2
- 21 October 2021: US Pacific Coast Compliance (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington) https://event.webinarjam.com/go/replay/299/3vvlrhp3twxcnxc5
- 14 July 2021: Alternative Planning Criteria (APC), Vessel Pro, and USCG Preparedness of Response Exercise Program (PREP) Compliance
- 10 June 2021: Ballast Water Management Implementation and Enforcement, Exhaust Gas Scrubbers in US waters, and the 2013 Vessel General Permit (VGP)
- 12 May 2021: US Pacific Coast Compliance (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)
We plan to hold similar regulatory update webinar series again commencing in May 2022. We will announce via circular a schedule of dates for our webinars in due course which will also be posted here.