Vehicles, decontamination

After the victim has been transported to the hospital the ambulance vehicle must be decontaminated by trained personnel. 

All personnel involved in the rescue and subsequent transport must be decontaminated and should be medi-ceiUy monitored. The vehicle must not be returned to regular service until it has been decontaminated. 

Procuring on-site facilities for office and laboratory space, decontamination equipment, and vehicle maintenance and repair, and sample storage, as well as on-site water, electric, telephone, and sanitary utilities... 

Decontamination of the equipment and vehicles situated in contaminated area... 

Requirements to decontamination substances and solutions for decontamination of vehicles, roads and fields are efficiency and prize, due to the large amount of substances to be used for field decontamination. 

The primary mission of the Decontamination Element is to turn chemical/biological victims into patients through mass decontamination procedures by establishing a site capable of providing initial and sustained operational decontamination of Force personnel (rescue workers), ambulatory, and non-ambulatory patients. The Decontamination Element also handles decontamination of CBIRF members, attachments, vehicles, and equipment that have entered the incident site controls access into and out of the incident site handles processing of surety material and evidence while maintaining chain of custody through the site and handles limited area decontamination of the incident site. 

M13 Portable Decontamination Apparatus The M13 is about the size of a five-gallon gasoline can and is used to decontaminate vehicles and military crew-served weapons larger than a. 50-caliber piece. 

Metal oxides, well known for their industrial applications as adsorbents and catalysts, have many potential decontamination applications such as protective filtration systems for vehicles, aircraft, and buildings and the demilitarization... 

Sorbent Decontamination. The sorbent program includes development of personal wipedown systems and spraydown operations. The objective is to improve upon the carbonaceous and ion exchange mixes in current use and to eliminate DS2 from the spraydown operations. A stable, environmentally acceptable, noncorrosive sorbent that is effective over a wide temperature range will permit decontamination of personal equipment, key areas of vehicles, and weapon systems. Short-term objectives include development of carbon cloth technology for the removal of contamination from skin. Longer-term objectives include testing and procurement of sorbent-based decontamination kits for field use. 

Dispersion of low viscosity (slippery) agents in the direction of rioters has been suggested as a means to impair their ability to undertake coordinated activities and make it difficult to carry out malicious tasks. However, in addition to the likelihood for physical accidents due to uncontrolled body movements, there may also be problems in the control of motorized vehicles in the area, including those of security forces. Also, in public areas there would be a need for rapid and thorough street and road decontamination. 

Each of these factors may achieve different levels of importance depending on circumstances of use. In a military setting, portability is critically important soldiers cannot carry gallons of water for use as a personal decontaminant. However, in a civilian setting, the ready access to clean water may make water an attractive choice. Similarly, in the military setting a personal decontamination kit that deteriorates rapidly may be less useful than, for example, a pack filled with fullers earth that retains its efficacy indefinitely. In all cases, speed of action and efficacy will be important. It will be understood that corrosive materials are unsuitable for personal decontamination and may also damage delicate equipment thus, a decontaminant suitable for use on the exterior of an armoured fighting vehicle may not be suitable for use either on the skin or on electronic equipment. 

Company, M. and Karsa, D. (2007) Vehicle cleaning. In I. Johansson and P. Somasundaran (eds), Handbook for Cleaning/Decontamination of surface, Vol 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Large burial sites have not been thoroughly characterized, and their exact contents remain unknown. These sites may contain chemical ordnance of mixed types, fills, and condition, and miscellaneous debris including, in some cases, vehicles and other debris that were used at the sites for decontamination training. The chemical ordnance may be extremely deteriorated, especially in cases where the CWM was burned prior to burial.2... 

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