Trans Mountain ensures our employees receive the training necessary to protect themselves, the public, local communities and the environment during an incident. We provide training to enable employees to perform their designated emergency responsibilities and formal training is reinforced by a program of regular emergency response exercises. We work to makes reasonable efforts to coordinate training and exercising plans with key stakeholders and communities.
We have several types of emergency response training for our employees. At a minimum, all employees who could potentially be involved in emergency response receive Incident Command System level 100 training. Additionally, field operations staff receive Incident Safe Approach training and Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) training. Employees also receive training on our Emergency Response Program and all the plan elements.
Response exercises practice the knowledge and skills received in training, identify areas of future training priority and areas to improve current emergency procedures or equipment, and engage with local response communities. Exercises are also an opportunity to share information with first responders and stakeholders to understand each other’s roles and responsibilities in the unlikely event of an incident.
Response team members participate in exercises each year that are relevant to their individual operations as outlined in our Integrated Safety and Loss Management System. At a minimum, each of our operational districts participates in one exercise per year which may be a deployment, table top or functional exercise.
The Incident Management Team (IMT) is responsible for implementing the ICS and is required to participate in at least one full scale (all resources deployed) exercise every three years. These exercises test different areas and scenarios and are held in communities where we operate with the location changing yearly.
Watch some of our recent exercises below:
