Safety Precautions in Handling Explosives

All the activities related to the production, storage, maintenance, and use of explosives are extremely hazardous. Therefore, while performing these activities, special care should be exercised to create and maintain conditions that would eliminate any possibility of accidental explosion. 

Safety measures in handling explosives include a system of co-ordinated technical, pyrotechnic, sanitary, education, and other activities directed towards the elimination of all possible causes of accidental explosions, and towards diminishing and removing the consequences of accidental explosions. 

The analyses of some accidental explosions have shown that the most frequent causes of accidental explosions are subjective in nature, resulting from the disregard of necessary safety precautions. 

For performing the tests that are the subject of this book, it is necessary, among other things, to know well and to follow closely general safety instructions described else ere. 

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