Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com (15) Provide technical support to the DA Explosives Safety Council and the DA Chemical Agent Safety Council. (16) Maintain database to catalog all explosives or chemical agent CORAs, waivers, exemptions, and CCRs with duration greater than 60 days. Periodically review database to ensure deviations are reviewed at the local level (to ensure risk assessments are current and that all exposures, risks, and mitigating actions are identified) and validate the need for continuance. bb. U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency.
The CMA will— (1) Establish and maintain a written quality assurance (QA) program consistent with the requirements of the International Standards Organization per DOD guidance. (2) Ensure that all CMA and cleanup facilities and operations, whether operated by or performed by the Government or contractors, comply with the following: (a) Specific requirements imposed by DOD, the Army, and other Federal and State agencies as specified in the contract. (b) All Federal statutes. (3) Provide centralized management and direction to the DOD for treatment and disposal of RCWM in a safe, environmentally sound, and cost-effective manner.
(4) Prepare transportation, interim holding facilities, treatment plans, and coordination of plans pertaining to RCWM. (5) Obtain the concurrence of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on transportation and treatment plans. (6) Maintain a database of those locations where chemical warfare material was (or was suspected to have been) manufactured, tested, stored, deployed, or disposed of. (7) Provide public information and encourage public involvement prior to and during the treatment of RCWM in accordance with chapter 24 of this regulation and DA Pam 385–24.
(8) Provide chemical agent medical support training (that is, community medical personnel) to support RCWM response activities. (9) Conduct preoperational surveys and operational readiness reviews prior to the test and operation of new facilities or equipment, in support of major changes, and when changing campaigns (for example, reconfiguring equipment and facilities to process different munitions or agent). These reviews, conducted with the assistance of oversight agencies (for example, HHS, AMC, U.S. Army Material Systems Analysis Activity, and so forth), document the status of the equipment and facility prior to the decision to operate.
The operational surveys and/or reviews take the place of most check-and-hold points associated with traditional Army item development (for example, safety assessment reports, safety releases, independent safety assessments, type classification, and so forth). (10) Design, approve, and operate equipment and facilities in support of assigned CMA missions to include storage, maintenance, production, and disposal of stockpile and nonstockpile chemical agent and munitions. cc. Executive Director of Explosives Safety. The EDES will plan, program, budget, and execute the funding of resources necessary to accomplish the USATCES mission and to assist the DASAF with the Army ESMP. dd.
Materiel developers, acquisition managers, and equipment, process, and facility designers. Materiel developers, acquisition managers and equipment, process, and facility designers will— (1) Initiate and tailor a System Safety Program in accordance with this regulation, DA Pam 385–16, and Military Standard (MIL–STD) 882D for all Army materiel, systems, software, equipment, facilities, and processes (such as, but not limited to, in-house development, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), nondevelopmental item (NDI), Government furnished equipment (GFE), and so forth) regardless of the acquisition process utilized (for example, evolutionary, spiral development, and so forth.
(2) Ensure that the System Safety Program addresses materiel change, modifications, integration, fielding, deploy- ment, disposal, and hazard tracking. (3) Establish, fund, and provide adequate resources to implement and maintain an effective system safety effort covering development, production, fielding, deployment, demilitarization, and disposal for their programs, projects, equipment, processes, and developmental areas. (4) Obtain the appropriate safety documentation (for example, safety assessment report) from the item or equipment developer or vendor when purchasing and developing equipment/facilities for the Army. Guidance in DA Pam 385–16 must be followed.
(5) Generate a composite risk assessment before allowing Soldiers or Army civilians to use, operate, maintain, and/ or dispose of an item, equipment, or facility being purchased or acquired for the Army or other military Services. A safety release must be obtained from Headquarters, DTC or in accordance with guidance provided in DA Pam 386–16 whenever Soldiers are involved in the event. (6) Certify that safety hazards are eliminated, controlled to the lowest risk level, or the resulting residual risk is formally accepted for their materiel, systems, equipment, facilities, and processes developed, acquired, fielded, and provided to the Army and other military Services.
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