Chemical surety

Systematic Approach for Safely Designing a Chemical Surety Materiel Laboratory... 

This article shows, through example, how established system safety concepts can be used to develop safety criteria for the design of a chemical surety materiel laboratory. This systematic approach, when applied as described in this article, results in a laboratory dedicated to achieve mission objectives in an environment relatively free of inherent hazards for the least number of dollars. 

Optimum safety and health are required to prevent personal injury to chemical surety agents. Facility System Safety is one avenue used to achieve optimum safety and health in operations that deal with these agents. 

The intended purpose of this article is to demonstrate, through specific examples, how FSS can be applied to the design/construc-tion/operation of a chemical surety materiel laboratory. The laboratory under study is a 32 million dollar Military Construction, Army (MCA) project designed to replace aging facilities which are currently utilized to perform daily Chemical Surety Materiel (CSM) operations. For the purpose of this article, CSM is defined as a... 

Laboratory Description. The laboratory under consideration will conduct diversified chemical surety materiel laboratory operations. These materials are anticholinergic agents and are extremely lethal in small concentrations. The recommended permissible airborne exposure concentration for some of these agents is 0.0001 mg/m3 (2 x 10-5 ppm). Two personnel are required, as a minimum, to perform this operation. 

Laboratory Design Considerations for Protection Against Vapor Chemical Surety Materiel Exposure... 

Chemical Surety Controls, procedures, and actions which contribute to the safety, security, and reliability of chemical agents and their associated weapon systems throughout their life cycle without degrading operational performance. 

Physical Security of Storage Areas and the Processing Facility, 22 Chemical Surety Program, 22... 

The commander at each level and contractor supervisors are responsible for implementation of an integrated management system based on the Army Chemical Surety Program and contract reqnirements. The program specifies accountability for the chemical agent inventory and controls access to storage and processing areas (U.S. Army, 20000-... 

U.S. Army. 1995. Nuclear and Chemical Weapon and Materiel Chemical Surety. Army Regulation (AR) 50-6, Chapter 3, paragraph 3-15. Unclassified PIN 031680-000. Washington, D.C. 

Regulatory criteria as provided in the DARCOM Safety Manual, DARCOM Safety Regulations for Chemical Agents, DOD Ammunition and Safety Standards and the Army Chemical Surety Program were found to have a significant impact on facility design. 

The Chemical Surety Program Regulation AR 50-6 prescribes procedures for the safe, secure and reliable life cycle management of chemical agents and munitions. The chemical surety program includes both physical and security design requirements for chemical security structures. 

Chemical Surety Program, AR 50-6, HQ Department of the Army, Washington, DC, 5 November 1976. 

Joiner, R.L., Harroff, H.H., Keys, W.B., Jr., Feder, P.I. (1987). Validation of a protocol to compare the effectiveness of experimental decontaminants with component II of the M258A1 Kit or Fuller s earth standard decontaminants against percutaneous application of undiluted vesicant chemical surety material to the labor. Pentagon Report. Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH, 99 pp. 

For example. Army Regulation 50-6, on chemical surety, provides specific examples of chemical events which the committee judges to be so broad as to invite widely divergent interpretations by local Army depot commanders, such as example number 7 Any malfunction or other significant activity at a chemical demilitarization plant that could reasonably be expected to cause concern within the local community or the press, or that in the judgment of the local facility or installation management or leadership could cause embarrassment to the U.S. Army (U.S. Army, 1995). 

U.S. Army. 1995. Army Regulation 50-6—Chemical Surety. Washington, DC Headquarters, Department of the Army. 

Category I Non-surety Emergency (Informational) This level will be declared when events are likely to occur or have occurred that may be perceived as a chemical surety emergency or that may be of general public interest, but which pose no chemical surety hazard. These are further broken down into two groups as identified below ... 

Hobson, D.W. and Snider, T.H., Evaluation of the Effects of Hypochlorite Solutions in the Decontamination of Wounds Exposed to Either the Organophosphonate Chemical Surety Materiel VX or the Vesicant Chemical Surety Materiel HD. USAMRICD, Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, MREF Task 89-11, Final Report, June, 1992. AD ADB165708. 

Durst, HD, Sarver EW, Yurow HW el al. (2002). Support for the delisting of decontaminated liquid chemical surety materials as listed hazardous waste from the specific sources (State), MD02 in COMAR 10.51.02.16-1. Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD U.S. Army Chemical Research Development and Engineering Center. 

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