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Our exercises are shaped by real-world insights, ensuring your team is prepared, confident, and capable when it matters most.

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Realistic, tailored exercises to strengthen your response capability

Effective preparedness comes from practice. OSRL’s preparedness exercises help your teams build confidence, improve coordination, and respond effectively to real-world incidents. Whether you're preparing for oil spills, cyber events, or broader emergency scenarios, our exercises are designed around your risks, operations, and response structure.

Exercises are not about going through the motions—they’re about creating muscle memory for the unexpected. Our goal is to support sustained capability development that prepares your teams to perform under pressure.

One size doesn’t fit all In a changing industry, a one-size-fits-all approach no longer applies. Our exercises:

  • Avoid generic or predictable scenarios
  • Challenge your teams in new and meaningful ways
  • Are fully customised to reflect your risks, operations, and objectives
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Notification exercise

Test activation and escalation procedures.

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Tabletop exercise

Explore strategic decisions in a discussion-based setting.

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Equipment deployment

Practice safe, effective use of Tier 1 equipment.

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Incident management drills

Strengthen response leadership and decision-making under pressure.

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Regulatory exercises

Participate in national or regional drills to meet compliance needs.

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Tier 2 collaboration

Integrate with local providers for seamless multi-agency response.

Immersive learning experiences

Our immersive, scenario-based exercises provide more than just a test—they help build capability across response roles. Each session is structured to align with your plans and systems and includes feedback to highlight strengths and improvement areas.

Flexible design, delivery, and evaluation

We can support all aspects of your preparedness exercise:

  • Design – from supporting your team to fully developing the scenario, injects, and exercise plan.
  • Delivery – options range from observer support to full exercise direction, simulation cell coordination, and performance coaching.
  • Evaluation – post-exercise debriefs and detailed feedback using your framework or OSRL’s proven assessment model.

Why it matters

Exercises require investment—but they deliver clear benefits:

  • Convert lessons identified into lessons learned
  • Build capability progressively and sustainably
  • Provide comprehensive coverage of risks and objectives
  • Deliver cost-effective, high-impact training
  • Increase team engagement and interdepartmental collaboration
  • Enable clear measurement of preparedness progress

Tailored solutions

Exercises customised to reflect your specific operational environment, ensuring relevance and maximum impact.

Realistic scenarios

Simulations based on actual risks and challenges, enhancing authenticity and preparedness.

Expert feedback

Detailed post-exercise evaluations to identify strengths and areas for improvement, fostering continuous learning.

Top tips for what makes a great exercise

Over the years, we have attended many oil spills and other incident management exercises. Exercise can be the closest thing you're ever get to the real thing, and it's a chance to test your assumptions and understanding.

It can be a great team-building exercise and bring different functions of the company together in a meaningful and essential way. 

Here are our top tips for what makes a great exercise.

FAQs

Why OSRL?

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Global experience

Four decades of global experience supporting industry preparedness and response.

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Good practice aligned

Aligned with international good practice and regulatory expectations

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Expertly delivered

Delivered by experienced facilitators and simulation specialists

Testimonials

"With a wealth of knowledge being shared throughout the event, and daily feedback being turned into action plans that will further enhance the credible response capability that is already in place, it’s clear that regular exercises are critical to responsible operation.”
OSRL Duty Manager
“They (OSRL) bring such technical knowledge and support, whether it's trajectory modelling, spill mapping, source control on water recovery, shoreside recovery - they bring everything with the current technology, the current knowledge to get an exercise to a successful end”.
Rob Pearce, Global Operations Integrity and SSHE at ExxonMobil

Be ready. Be resilient.

Strengthen your spill response today.

With our preparedness services, you can enhance your capabilities and improve response efficiency. Invest in your preparedness today for the response of tomorrow. Find out more about this service and our range of preparedness solutions.

 

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