Decontamination Equipment Standards Workshop for Civilian First Responders

Abstract

The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center's Decision Analysis Team (DAT) was tasked by the Department of Homeland Security/National Institute of Standards and Technology Standards Development Team to conduct a workshop with first responders to obtain more focused input on important decontamination equipment characteristics. The workshop was a follow-on effort to a survey that the DAT conducted in 2008. Over the course of 2 days in January 2009, the DAT led a structured discussion among the participants in each of the 10 areas relating to decontamination addressed in the survey (time, ease of use, reliability/maintainability, operating conditions, transportability, consumable resources required, human factors, interoperability, power requirements, and operational interface) as well as several other topics that had not been previously addressed (e.g., waste management, decontamination efficacy). The Standards Development Team used the results from the workshop to update the draft ASTM standard for civilian first responder decontamination systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA511363

Entities

People

  • John Walther
  • Matthew Beebe
  • Michael B. Dezearn
  • Shawn Bowen

Organizations

  • Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Decontamination Equipment
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Environmental Protection
  • First Responders
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Health
  • Homeland Security
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • Public Health
  • Residual-Current Devices
  • Security
  • Shelf Life
  • Standards
  • Test Methods
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Waste Management

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Systems Analysis and Design