Strengthening spill response preparedness
CEDRE trains French and foreign authorities and companies in the response to spills of oil, chemicals or plastic pellets.
We offer standard and bespoke training courses, at our facilities or at your own site.
Training is essential to strengthen your spill response organisation.
training tomorrow's responders
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Internationally recognised training
Every year, we train nearly 1,200 professionals from government agencies, local authorities and private companies around the globe.
Our trainers speak French, English and Spanish. For other languages, our training courses can be delivered with the support of translators.
CEDRE is certified to deliver training courses in accordance with national and international standards.
Our training courses
Standard courses
With our inter-company courses, benefit from training that meets national and international standards while expanding your professional network.
Bespoke courses
The content, duration and methods of our bespoke training courses are tailored to meet your requirements.
E-learning
Complementary to our in-person courses, our online training modules provide prior insights or expand on the concepts covered during a course.
Our standard training courses
Our bespoke training courses
Whether at CEDRE's facilities with the release of real pollutants, or at your premises, including offshore sites, with simulants, our training courses are tailored to your needs.
They are targeted towards decision-makers, incident management teams and response teams. We offer practical exercises, tutorials and theory lectures for all aquatic environments, all types of pollutants and all aspects of response: organisation, assessment, response techniques, waste management and compensation.
Our training courses combine theory and practical sessions to enhance your preparedness, improve your teams' responsiveness and improve safety during response operations, with fully customised content.
E-learning
Our learning approach
Our training courses combine theory and practice, alternating between different approaches to boost the learning process: face-to-face or online lectures, practical exercises with the release of real or simulated pollutants, case studies, tutorials, interactive quizzes, serious games and feedback from past incidents.
Learning and understanding through theory and hands-on sessions: gain lasting skills through this active training approach.
All course participants receive the training materials and supplementary documents (regulations, operational guides, etc.), to refresh and further the knowledge acquired during the course.
Skilled and experienced training staff
Our in-house and external training staff are selected for their recognised skills and experience in the relevant fields.
In addition to our in-house trainers, CEDRE also calls upon experts and external lecturers from the authorities in charge of spill response, the maritime sector, oil companies, the legal field, the academic world and the media to offer diverse perspectives and concrete insights.
Accessibility
Some of our training courses include practical sessions that can involve strenuous physical activity. If you have any physical ailments or injuries that may affect your participation in the practical exercises (equipment deployment, simulations), please inform us upon registration, as well as your supervisor upon arrival on site.
Pregnant women are strongly advised to avoid exposure to certain pollutants.
Our training courses are accessible to people with disabilities. To ensure we best accommodate your needs, please email us at: formation@cedre.fr
Our partners
SDIS 29 departmental training centre
Located in Saint-Ségal, the Finistère fire and rescue service's departmental training centre can provide CEDRE with access to:
- Its platform devoted to technological risks and its shipping containers for chemical risk exercises
- Its section of road for the simulation of accidents involving the transport of hazardous materials
- Its classrooms and virtual reality immersion room
IMT Mines Ales and ES2: incident management, pollution in freshwater environments
CEDRE, IMT Mines Alès and ES2 have joined forces to offer a training course on spill management in inland waters. This training is held at the IMT Mines Alès campus, where we have access to classrooms, a crisis simulator and the expertise of the crisis management research department.
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