Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com (12) Ensure that chemical agent safety training and instruction are consistent with this regulation and monitor the operation of the chemical defense training facility to ensure compliance with this regulation and DA Pam 385–61. (13) Ensure tactical chemical agent safety training and instruction are consistent with this regulation and DA Pam 385–61, chapter 12.
(14) Develop and include appropriate radiation safety training in military occupational specialty (MOS)/specialty skill identifier producing courses and in-unit mission-essential task list profiles for personnel in MOS/specialty skill identifiers and TOE units that use radiation and radioactive commodities, depleted uranium munitions, and depleted uranium armor. (15) Prepare training modules (in coordination with the CG, AMC, and the CG, Army Medical Department Center and School (AMEDDC&S) about protection from United States and foreign ionizing and nonionizing radiation sources that may expose Army personnel to radiation during deployment.
(16) Provide radiation safety courses to qualify unit and garrison RSO’s in accordance with NRC applicable licenses. q. Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command. The CG, AMC will— (1) Minimize hazards for materiel and systems acquired for the Army and other military services. (2) Identify potential corrective actions for each hazard and project the total life cycle accident costs for each potential corrective measure. (3) Implement the health hazard assessment requirements of AR 40–10. (4) Develop airworthiness qualification of Army aircraft systems in accordance with AR 70–62.
(5) Recommend to the ODASAF whether specific chemical agents or weapons systems are safe for storage, shipment, and deployment and what safety controls are required. (6) Provide oversight of contractor activities to ensure the safety of chemical agents during RDT&E sponsored by AMC. (7) Analyze chemical agent event data and recommend remedial actions to ODASAF. (8) Collect, analyze, and disseminate chemical agent safety information to HQDA and activities with a chemical agent mission. (9) Provide final safety review for ammunition-peculiar equipment. (10) Develop and transmit safety-of-use messages for commodities in accordance with AR 750–6 and a vehicle- safety recall campaign.
(11) Develop and maintain explosives safety standards for AMC industrial operations and the ammunition produc- tion base. (12) Develop and acquire new conventional and nonconventional munitions providing for user and public safety during the manufacture, packaging, transportation, storage, use, and disposal/demilitarization. (13) Report and investigate malfunctions involving A&E (AR 75–1). (14) Ensure proper testing is done on A&E in accordance with Section 173, Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (49 CFR 173) and technical bulletin (TB) 700–2.
(15) Provide final engineering review of specialized equipment used in chemical operations for compliance with DA chemical agent standards (for example, lifting devices/slings; agent containers providing vapor containment for opera- tion, transportation, or storage; and nonstandard or locally fabricated equipment). (16) Identify, establish, and maintain safety training programs to support the chemical agent surety program. (17) Exercise administrative control over NRC licenses and ARAs for Army radioactive commodities within AMC’s purview of this regulation.
(18) Provide ionizing radiation dosimetry services at the Army Dosimetry Center (ADC) that meet the requirements of 10 CFR 20.1501(c), paragraph 7–2 f of this regulation, and DA Pam 385–24. (19) Provide Army low-level radioactive waste disposal services in accordance with DA Pam 385–24. (20) Provide the Army radiation test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment (TMDE) program material and accredited radiation-instrument calibration services (AR 750–43 and TB 750–25). (21) Maintain the capability to provide on-site radiation safety support following radioactive material contamination accidents and incidents in accordance with DA Pam 385–24.
(22) Ensure that foreign military sales of radioactive material, items that contain radioactive material, X-ray machines, and military-exempt lasers comply with applicable U.S. regulations and DOD directives. (23) Establish a Fuze Safety Board to ensure that fuzing systems provide an optimum degree of safety.
The board will serve as the technical authority for fuze safety of all Army nonnuclear munitions, issue or withdraw interim and/or final safety certifications, review system safety risk assessments (SSRAs) to determine the level of risk during the fuze life cycle, and establish and review design safety criteria and safety requirements for all Army nonnuclear fuzes and safety and arming devices. (24) Establish an Ignition System Safety Board to ensure that rocket motor ignition systems provide an optimum degree of safety. 6 AR 385–10 • 23 August 2007/RAR 4 October 2011