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The OSRL Podcast: The Response Force Multiplier - Episode 1

Welcome to Episode 1 of The OSRL Podcast: The Response Force Multiplier. In this first instalment, we examine how OSRL’s response community enhances collective capability during major oil spills. Listen in as we explore the real-world value of connection, cooperation and coordinated response in complex incidents.

  • By Dave Rouse
  • 23 May, 2023
  • 40 min listen

Crisis exercises: are you wasting your time and money? A blueprint for better exercises

Hundreds of thousands of hours and millions of euros are spent each year planning, executing and debriefing crisis exercises.

The return on this significant investment is rarely fully and honestly appraised. If it were, organisations would uncover an uncomfortable truth: many exercises probably fail to achieve their potential.

Dave Rouse, crisis management services lead at Oil Spill Response, and Dr El Parker, specialist crisis management consultant, discuss how you can maximise the value from exercises, sharing lessons learned and a blueprint for better exercises.

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Test, refine and build confidence in your response

Our preparedness exercises reflect real-world challenges—designed around your risks and operations, with collaborative delivery and structured feedback.

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