• International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as amended 1978 (MARPOL 73/78).
  
  
• Australian revised (11/2007) National Marine Chemical Spill Contingency Plan, free download - pdf (2.9 MB).
  
  
• OECD Chemical Accidents Department with information on accident prevention, preparedness, and response. English - Français.
  
  
• OECD Environmental Health and Safety: "International Directory of Response Centres for Chemical Accidents", PDF-format (0.5 MB, 2002).
  
  
• Hazardous Cargo Bulletin, a magazine for those involved in the transport, storage, and handling of chemicals, gases, and dangerous oil products.
  
  
• World-wide summaries of oil spill response arrangements, resources and restrictions. Gives country specific data sheets. You must click on "Forward to ..." and agree on "Terms & Conditions" first before you get access to the different options to download.
  
  
• Internet resource directory of information on oil cargo spills, regulations, clean-up contractors and spill responsive organizations - US and world wide.
  
  
• World-wide oil spill control directory.
  
  
• Oil spill response organization listing resources.
  
  
• European Maritime Safety Agency: Inventory of EU member states' oil pollution response capacity, PDF-format.
  
  
• US Coast Guard Marine Casualty and Pollution Database.
  
  
• China pollution clean-up resources summary.
  
  
• Society of Maritime Industries giving info on pollution prevention, pollution control, and accident clean-up.
  
  
• Compensation and Liability for Oil pollution damage.

Hazardous Materials Training

• IMDG Code e-learning course for shore side personnel processing dangerous goods shipments; including IMDG Code Amendment 33-06, which is mandatory from January 01, 2008. See amendments check-list.
  
  
• Free online study courses concerning hazardous cargoes.
  
  
• Free on-line Hazardous Materials Safety Training courses. Although the courses are American, safety measures and practices are applicable everywhere. If you require a certificate upon completing a certain course, then you pay a small administrative fee.
  
  
• Online hazmat training, mainly US rules, some of these can, however, be applied also elsewhere.
  
  
• Hazardous Cargo Security online training course ( US ). The first item requested by US DOT inspectors is the Security Plan.
  
  
• Hazardous Materials Transportation training ( US ), in the form of Workshops, On-site training, or Online training.
  
  
• "The First Responder's Guide to Satellite Communications", an overview and tutorial of satellite technology in response to natural or man-made disasters.

• World-wide chemical employment (Europe, North America, and Asia). Use job search function to find posted jobs.