Download or read book The Army Chemical Agent Safety Program written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Safety written by Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a. This mandatory pamphlet describes the minimum safety criteria, guidance, and procedures for use in processing,handling, storage, transportation, disposal, and decontamination of chemical agents.b. This pamphlet does not apply to tactical military operations.c. This pamphlet does not apply to research, development, test, and evaluation (RDTE) dilute solutions except wherespecifically addressed in this pamphlet. These provisions should be used in conjunction with hazard analyses/standingoperating procedures (SOPs) and good laboratory practices to minimize the risks associated with these operations.d. Specific requirements pertaining to chemical agent safety during the conduct of military tactical training are notedin chapter 12. Where conflicts exist between the requirements of chapter 12 and other parts of this pamphlet, therequirements of chapter 12 have precedence.e. This pamphlet does not apply to Recovered Chemical Warfare Material (RCWM), except where required by DAPam 385-72.f. DA Pam 385-65 contains the requirements for developing and submitting chemical site plans.g. This pamphlet does not apply to Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS) that contain dilute chemical agents orindustrial chemicals, which are managed as hazardous waste; the exception is CAIS components that contain dilutenerve agent.

Download or read book Department of the Army Pamphlet DA PAM 385 61 Toxic Chemical Agent Safety Standards 13 November 2012 written by United States Government US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet updates Army guidance and implements procedures for conducting a chemical agent safety program in accordance with AR 385-10. This pamphlet applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard / Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. It also applies to Department of the Army civilian employees in a duty status, on or off a Department of Defense installation, and to Department of the Army contractors (unless otherwise specified within contract clauses) with a responsibility for toxic chemical agent operations or a toxic chemical agent mission. It also applies to other Department of Defense personnel and foreign military personnel working with and under Army operational control.

Download or read book Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-12-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of accumulated chemical weapons stored at several sites. While destruction by incineration has been successful, several incidentsâ€"called chemical eventsâ€"occurred during the disposal process or decontamination activities that raised some public concerns about the safety of operations of three third generation incineration facilities. As a result, the Congress asked the NRC to investigate whether the incidents provide information useful to help ensure safe operation of the future sites. This book presents an analysis of causes of and responses to past chemical events, implications of such events for ongoing and future demilitarization activities, and recommendations for preparing for future events.

Download or read book Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army's chemical stockpile is aging and gradually deteriorating. Its elimination has public, political, and environmental ramifications. The U.S. Department of Defense has designated the Department of the Army as the executive agent responsible for the safe, timely, and effective elimination of the chemical stockpile. This book provides recommendations on the direction the Army should take in pursuing and completing its Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program.

Download or read book Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only three countries will possess chemical weapons-the United States, Russia, and Libya. In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress mandated that the Army and its contractors destroy the stockpile while ensuring maximum safety for workers, the public, and the environment. The destruction program has proceeded without serious exposure of any worker or member of the public to chemical agents, and risk to the public from a storage incident involving the aging stockpile has been reduced by more than 90 percent from what it was at the time destruction began on Johnston Island and in the continental United States. At this time, safety at chemical agent disposal facilities is far better than the national average for all industries. Even so, the Army and its contractors are desirous of further improvement. To this end, the Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) asked the NRC to assist by reviewing CMA's existing safety and environmental metrics and making recommendations on which additional metrics might be developed to further improve its safety and environmental programs.

Download or read book Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with a congressional mandate (Public Law 104-484) and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is currently destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. The Army must ensure that the chemical demilitarization workforce is protected from the risks of exposure to hazardous chemicals during disposal operations and during and after facility closure. Good industrial practices developed in the chemical and nuclear energy industries and other operations that involve the processing of hazardous materials include workplace monitoring of hazardous species and a systematic occupational health program for monitoring workers' activities and health. In this report, the National Research Council Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program examines the methods and systems used at JACADS and TOCDF, the two operational facilities, to monitor the concentrations of airborne and condensed-phase chemical agents, agent breakdown products, and other substances of concern. The committee also reviews the occupational health programs at these sites, including their industrial hygiene and occupational medicine components. Finally, it evaluates the nature, quality, and utility of records of workplace chemical monitoring and occupational health programs.

Download or read book Review of the Army Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-01-03 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a review and evaluation of the U.S. Army's Report to Congress on Alternative Approaches for the Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS). CAIS are test kits that were used to train soldiers from 1928 to 1969 in defensive responses to a chemical attack. They contain samples of chemicals that had been or might have been used by opponents as chemical warfare agents. The Army's baseline approach for treating and disposing of CAIS has been to develop a mobile treatment system, called the Rapid Response System (RRS), which can be carried by several large over-the-road trailers.

Download or read book Chemical Surety written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, the Army completed construction of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), the first complete facility for destruction of lethal unitary chemical agents and munitions to be built in the continental United States. The TOCDF will employ the Army's baseline incineration system to destroy the depot's increment of the nation's aging unitary chemical stockpile. This book assesses Army changes and improvements to the TOCDF in response to recommendations contained in earlier reports of the committee. It assesses aspects of the facility's readiness for safe agent handling and destruction operations, its agent monitoring system, and its site specific risk assessment.

Download or read book Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-12-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews the status of the U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) operations at Tooele, Utah, with respect to previous recommendations and observations made by the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (Stockpile Committee). The committee recognizes actions that have satisfied recommendations, identifies recommendations that require further action, and provides additional recommendations for improving the overall CSDP performance at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), Tooele, Utah, and other sites.

Download or read book Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense, through the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, is currently in the process of constructing two full-scale pilot plants at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado and the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky to destroy the last two remaining inventories of chemical weapons in the U.S. stockpile. These two storage sites together account for about 10 percent of the original U.S. chemical agent stockpile that is in the process of being destroyed in accordance with the international Chemical Weapons Convention treaty. Unlike their predecessors, these facilities will use neutralization technologies to destroy agents contained within rockets, projectiles, and mortar rounds, requiring the use of specially designed equipment. As part of its focus on safe operation of the planned facilities, the Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study to offer guidance on the application of process safety metrics at the Pueblo Chemical Depot and Blue Grass Army Depot. Process safety is a disciplined framework for managing the integrity of operating systems, processes and personnel handling hazardous substances, and operations by applying good design principles, engineering, and operating practices. Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants discusses the use of leading and lagging process safety metrics that could provide feedback on the effectiveness of controls to mitigate risks and minimize consequences of potential incidents. The book makes several recommendations that will facilitate the development and application of process safety metrics at both sites.

Download or read book Chemical and Biological Defense Program Annual Report to Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of the Continuing Operability of Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Equipment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) currently oversees contracts for the operation of chemical agent stockpile incineration facilities at four disposal sites. Because the period of time required to dispose of these chemical agents has grown beyond that originally planned, the Army is becoming concerned about the possibility of growing operational problems as the processing equipment ages. To help address these concerns, the CMA requested the NRC to assess whether current policies and practices will be able to adequately anticipate and address facility obsolescence issues. This report presents a review of potential infrastructure and equipment weaknesses given that the facilities are being operated well beyond their original design lifetime; an assessment of the Army's current and evolving obsolescence management programs; and offers recommendations about how the programs may be improved and strengthened to permit safe and expeditious completion of agent stockpile destruction and facility closure.

Download or read book Impact of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits on Non Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Activities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army's Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to congressional requirements, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in 2003, recommended new airborne exposure limits (AELs) to protect workforce and public health during operations to destroy this materiel. To assist in meeting these recommended limits, the U.S. Army asked the NRC for a review of its implementation plans for destruction of production facilities at the Newport Chemical Depot and the operation of two types of mobile destruction systems. This report presents the results of that review. It provides recommendations on analytical methods, on airborne containment monitoring, on operational procedures, on the applicability of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and on involvement of workers and the public in implementation of the new AELs.

Download or read book Department of Defense Safety Programs for Chemical and Biological Warfare Research written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: