Department of Defense Explosives

J. Briggs, "A Safer Blast for the Modem Army," in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Explosives Safety Seminar, U.S. Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board, NTIS, Springfield, Va., 1972, p. 313. 

Klein, P. F., Fragment and Debris Hazards, Technical Paper 12, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board, Jul 1975. 

Meyers, G.E. Design Criteria and Test Acceptance Specification for Blast Resistant Windows. Department of Defense Explosive Safety Seminar, Anaheim, CA, Aug 1986. 

Environmentally safe destruction of obsolete chemical weapons must be performed In facilities which assure total containment of blast effects and toxic gas In the event of an accidental detonation. Functional process requirements and recommended structural design procedures for containment rooms to accomplish this purpose are presented. The requirements presented are consistent with Department of the Army and Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board requirements. 

Repair and Reuse After Explosion. Although the risk of a high order detonation of a munition during disassembly is low, this hazard does exist. In the event of such an incident, it is a design requirement for the containment rooms to suffer only minimal damage and allow rapid refurbishment. To assure this capability, the containment room structural design criteria are more conservative than Department of Defense Explosive Safety Criteria would normally require. This is considered appropriate since vapor containment is so critical in this facility. 

Explosives Safety Seminar, Veranstalter Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board, jahrlich, ab 1974 alle 2 Jahre, erhaltlich uber National Technical Information Service (NTIS), US Department of Commerce), 1958-1995 (26th)... 

Defourneaux, M., and Kemen, P. (1992) Think before testing. Minutes of the 25th Explosives Safety Seminar, vol. IV. Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board, Anaheim Hilton Hotel, Anaheim, California, August 18-20, 1992, p. 1. 

A useful source of data on the safety record of the transportation of expls is the Office of Hazardous Materials News, Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. A European collection of data on industry connected accidents is said to have been collected by Dr Karl Trautzl (Ref 44). The Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board has issued two series of publications (Ref 26). The first are the proceedings of the Annual Explosives Safety Seminars. The second publication series are the abstracts of expl accidents. These reports are submitted voluntarily by both government and industry and are complete with descriptions of causes, damage and casualties. Incidents related to the Fireworks industry are reported annually in the Fire Journal (Ref 64)... 

NOTE AEL, airborne exposure limit DA, Department of the Army DDESB, Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board and MACOM, major Army command. 

The characteristics of the shields approved by the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board are summarized in this table. They include sizes and charge weights typical to munitions manufacturing, but they can be scaled up or down in size or charge weight to meet special laboratory requirements. 

Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board has approved five groups of suppressive shields for protection of munitions production operations in US Army Ammunition Plants. Safety approved shields encompass seven different designs which range in size from a two foot diameter steel shell (Shield Group 6) to a ten foot diameter steel cylinder (Shield Group 3). 

Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board. This activity reviews and approves all explosives handling facilities operating for the Department of Defense. This includes all industrial and government activities in the United States and selected activities in NATO. They are the final authority on explosives facilities. Their approval was required on the facility described in this paper. 

DDESB Department of Defense Explosive Safety ICB immobilized cell bioreactor... 

Process safety for both the workers on-site and the adjacent community must be assessed. In addition, the Department of Defense Explosive Safety Board (DDESB) will need to approve the Site Safety Submission for each application or issue a systemwide approval document (as already done for the EDS). The subfactors involved in process safety are listed in Table 2-3. Process safety is a very important factor. 

US Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB)/Klotz-Club U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg MS/USA Joachim, Charles E. 

Department of Defense Explosives Saftety Board DDESB Norwegian Defence Construction Service Jenssen, Amfinn Krest, Ottar... 

Tatom, F. B., and J. W. Tatom (1996). Computer Based Prediction of Personnel Injury Due to an Explosion. 27th Department of Defense Explosives Softly Seminar. Las V as, NV. 

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