Emergency Spill Response for Oil Spill and More

Need fast, expertly handled spill response? SERS offers emergency chemical and oil spill response in Brisbane, Perth, and Sydney. This helps businesses stay safe, compliant, and environmentally responsible by choosing SERS’ 24/7 cleanup, reporting, and remediation services.

What Is Spill Response?

Spill response is a stepwise process that remediates oil and chemical spills. To maintain a safe working environment and minimise damage to the surroundings, prompt and effective cleanup of the spilled oil or chemical is essential. This involves identifying the substance in question (whether it is hazardous, corrosive, or benign), assessing the situation, containing it within a small area, cleaning up the area, disposing of all wastes, and conducting remediation. This mitigates the hazards caused by the spill and helps maintain industrial compliance norms.

Why Is Fast Spill Response Essential?

In populous Australian cities like Brisbane, oil spills and other kinds of spills can be highly hazardous. In the event of an incident, a fast chemical or oil spill response is necessary to keep potential damage to property and the environment at a minimum. With an effective emergency spill response plan in place, you can enjoy the following benefits:

• Limited exposure to harmful chemicals and associated fumes, thus protecting human health.
• Preventing the spread to soil and water, limiting contamination from oil and chemical spills.
• Contains spills quickly and prevents damage to property.
• Ensures regulatory compliance, such as with the EPA and WorkSafe.
• Reduces business downtime and reputational risk.

Types of Spill Response Services We Provide

At SERS, we offer a comprehensive set of services for cleaning up small and large-scale, hazardous and non-hazardous spills. These include:

• Oil Spills resulting from land-based sources such as plants and refineries, marine sources like ships and tankers, vehicles, and depots.
• Chemical Spill Response involving acids, solvents, industrial waste, etc.
• Fuel Spills, such as diesel, petrol, and lubricants.

Our services also include the cleanup of hazardous waste, contamination remediation, and round-the-clock (24/7) emergency spill response.

For Small Spills (Approx. < 6 Gallons)

Small spills refer to incidents involving chemical or oil spills in Sydney involving a volume of 6 gallons or less. These are often seen in warehouses, fuel stations, garages, and labs, and any area that runs the risk of fuel leaks. In the event of a small spill, a team is deployed, kitted out in PPE, and carrying on-site spill kits. SERS’s expert remediation team uses absorbent pads, granules, and bunding, to prevent the spill from entering sewers or drainage systems, and cleans up the area. This reduces risks from spills and helps maintain regulatory compliance.

For Large Spills (Approx. > 6 Gallons)

When the volume of a spill crosses 6 gallons, it is classified as a large spill. These call for serious intervention, for which we deploy a full team equipped with vacuum trucks, skimmers, and hazmat-grade PPE. For the cleanup process, SERS follows the steps per the HazMat or UPD instructions. Then, approved environmental disposal vendors are contacted for disposing of contaminated materials. This intervention protects your personnel, minimises environmental damage, and helps maintain full regulatory compliance.

Indoor vs. Outdoor Spill Considerations

Depending on the location where the spill takes place, the incident can be classified as an indoor or outdoor spill.

Indoor Spill

Indoor spills can be easily contained with early intervention. The expert team at SERS employs floor bunds to enable containment, and rapid cleanup is done with the help of appropriate absorbent materials. Then, the waste is disposed of using certified disposal methods. SERS ensures quick, efficient cleanup and disposal of indoor chemical and oil spills with minimal disruption, helping maintain a clean workplace in line with Australian compliance standards.

Outdoor Spill

Outdoor spills pose a greater risk of stormwater contamination and seepage into groundwater, affecting the water table. Thus, they call for prompt action for cleanup along with surface protection and soil remediation, often inviting involvement from regulatory authorities. Thus, these are more critical, prompting urgent response, EPA reporting, and taking the proper steps for environmental protection. At SERS, we treat outdoor chemical and oil spills with utmost urgency, mobilising a team of experts to contain the spill, prevent spread, and clean up with efficiency.

Our Spill Response Process

For prompt emergency spill response, we follow the SOP below:

• Raising an incident alert and dispatching a team.
• Conducting risk and material assessment at the site.
• Deploying necessary personnel and equipment to contain, absorb, and clean up the spill.
• Proper removal and disposal of waste.
• Surface decontamination and remediation at the site.
• Providing documentation for the EPA and insurance.

Having the Right Conveyance

We have a fleet of spill response vehicles ready for rapid deployment to metro and regional sites, which include:

• excavators
• bin trucks
• tipper trucks (8m³ to 20m³ semi-tippers)
• vacuum trucks

Further, for efficient cleanup and remediation, our vehicles are equipped with:

• Spill kits
• Neutralising agents
• Booms
• Sorbent pads
• Granular oil sorbents
• PPE
• Recovery pumps and vacuum
• Containment barriers and bunding tools, like spill berms

Our Personnel

SERS works with a team of trained and dedicated professionals for emergency spill response services. Our team includes hazmat-trained responders and environmental scientists, certified in EPA spill management protocols.

Further, they are equipped with industry-grade PPE and containment systems and are available 24/7 for both emergency and planned interventions.

Areas We Serve

For emergency spill response services across key locations in Australia, such as Perth, Sydney, and Brisbane, contact SERS. We ensure prompt action to contain hazards and keep you compliant with local regulations.

Spill Response Services in Brisbane

To clean up any chemical, fuel or oil spills in Brisbane, we retain a local rapid response team. Further, our team at SERS is well-versed in all necessary EPA requirements for Queensland, offering effective and compliant spill response services.

Spill Response Services in Perth

For oil and chemical spill response in key industrial and mining sites based in Perth and other areas in WA, we offer prompt and effective emergency spill response services. With SERS, you get fast containment and cleanup of spills in a manner that is compliant with environmental standards.

Spill Response Services in Sydney

Having an emergency Spill Response Management Plan (SRMP) is a must at logistics hubs and construction zones. SERS offers an expert team for emergency fuel, chemical, and oil spill response and cleanup in Sydney.

Preparedness Services

For industries that have a higher risk of spills, we offer preparedness services, keeping you ready to address any spill-related situation. This involves:

• Creating site-specific Spill Response Management Plans (SRMPs).
• Offering on-site spill kits and restocking necessary equipment.
• Conducting spill response drills and staff training.

Compliance and Reporting

To stay apprised of all regulatory and compliance norms set for spill response, we provide:

• EPA and WorkSafe Documentation

  This helps businesses keep up with compliance norms and maintain necessary documentation for audits and associated activities.

• Waste Disposal Tracking

  We track the disposal of the waste materials from spill cleanup to ensure that disposal is done in a manner that is safe and environmentally responsible.

• Post-incident Review Reports

  Once the entire task is completed, we offer a clear post-incident report for your records, outlining every detail associated with the process.

Industries We Serve

The extensive spill response services by SERS are designed for industries and primarily availed by the following:

• Transport and freight
• Mining and heavy industry
• Construction and demolition
• Fuel and chemical storage

Contact SERS for Spill Response

Facing an incident of oil or chemical spill at your premises? SERS offers emergency spill response services in locations across Australia. This includes chemical and oil spill response services in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, and other major areas in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales.

Call and reach out to us on 1300 542 315 or fill in our online form.

Need more information? Refer to the Australian Government’s article on pollution and spill response.

We also offer planning and landfill management, dilapidation survey, Contaminated land services, and more.