The Case for Safety and Suitability for Service Assessments to Be Based on a Manufacture to Disposal Sequence
Abstract
The Australian Ordnance Council currently bases its assessments of the safety and suitability for service of munitions on the manufacture to target sequence. However, with ever greater concern being given to the effects of military activities on the environment, and the ever increasing pressures to ensure that our activities do not harm our environment, there is a case that future safety and suitability for service assessments must take into account the ultimate disposal of a munition to ensure that it can be disposed of in a way that is not harmful to the environment. This paper examines the case for considering a manufacture to disposal sequence when assessing a munition for safety and suitability for service and also highlights a similar problem in regard to the effects on the environment of using munitions in training. This paper does not profess to answer any questions. In fact, I hope that it will pose a few and at least sow a few seeds to get you thinking. Maybe some of you can provide me with some answers. These I will welcome. In fact, I would be more than happy for this session to develop into a discussion session. Also, I have slightly expanded the scope of the paper from the synopsis I submitted many months ago, and I hope that you will forgive me for that, but I feel that all of what I have to say is intertwined. And, I must point out from the start that while I have the average person's concern for the environment, I am not a `greenie'. However, I am a realist.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA507372
Entities
People
- W. M. Mayne