Chemical surety materiel

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. 

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... 

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. 

Table 3. Incidence and description of selected chemical surety materiel suspect at nonstockpile sites. 

Joiner, R.L., J. Harroff, H.H., Keys, J., et al., 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 materiel to the labor Pentagon Report, 99. Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH. 

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