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Shoreline clean up Personnel
5.16 Most aspects of shoreline clean up do 5.17 A wide range of different personnel can be
not demand specialised equipment but involved in responding to a spill from state
usually involve manpower supported by and local authority staff, military personnel,
excavators, front-end loaders, lorries and contractors and volunteers. Each will attract
other vehicles. Claims should closely follow different costs which must be documented,
national market rates for both manpower not only in terms of the time claimed for
working on the incident, but also their role
and non-specialised equipment. In
in the response. The basis of admissibility
assessing such claims, comparisons are for government personnel claims is broadly
made with commercial rates charged by that the actual costs to the administration
vehicle and plant hire companies located in are accepted i.e. for salaries, social costs
the region of the spill. Such assessments and overtime. Most administrations have
take into account the emergency situation, well-established tariffs for their personnel
which can lead to low availability of the but when presenting a claim for government
necessary resources, so that they have personnel costs, the individual components
to be sourced from some distance with that make up the rates charged should be
associated costs. Nevertheless it is identified so that remote overheads, such
anticipated that rates would be rationalised as for headquarters staff not involved in
as the incident entered a project phase. the incident, can be excluded.