Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com g. Chapter 20, Biological Safety h. Chapter 21, Chemical Agent Safety Management Chapter 5 Explosives Safety Management 5–1. Introduction a. This chapter provides minimum explosives safety policy for commanders with an ammunition and/or explosives mission to protect personnel. b. The explosives safety standards prescribed in DA Pam 385–64 will be used together with this chapter. c. Explosives storage and handling must conform with DOD and Army standards for explosives safety unless the use of other criteria such as those of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or a HN has been agreed to or are mandatory.
A copy of all agreements will be made a permanent part of the real property records. d. This chapter applies to activities and organizations with missions involving A&E and applies during peacetime, wartime, contingency operations, training, exercises, military munitions responses, and RDT&E (refer to AR 385–63 for guidance specific to live fire training and training ranges). 5–2. Policy Consistent with peacetime, contingency, or wartime operational requirements and corresponding DOD military muni- tions requirements, it is Army policy to— a. Provide the maximum possible protection to people and property from the potential damaging effects of DOD military munitions. b.
Comply with DA Pam 385–64 and, when outside the United States, comply with HN, multinational, or U.S. explosives safety standards, whichever are more stringent unless standards applicability is mandated by international agreement. c. Utilize quantitative risk-based explosives safety assessment tools and criteria as decisionmaking aids. d. Minimize exposures consistent with safe and efficient operations (that is, expose the minimum number of people for the minimum time to the minimum amount of explosives). e. Enhance readiness and mission capability by providing for explosive safety management considerations through- out the military munitions life cycle. f.
Implement and maintain effective ESMP. g. Prohibit the disposal (for example, burying and dumping) of DOD military munitions on land or in water except when specifically authorized by the SA or his or her designee. This prohibition does not preclude covering munitions with earth to control fragments and noise during authorized testing or destruction by detonation, or the use of in-situ capping, when implemented as an engineered remedy under an authorized munitions response action. h. Give precedence to explosive safety management principles and requirements that provide for immediate protec- tion of people and property while complying with applicable environmental regulations. i.
Conduct appropriate munitions response actions on Army real property that are known or suspected to contain m i l i t a r y m u n i t i o n s a n d e x p l o s i v e s o f c o n c e r n , a c c o r d i n g t o a p p r o p r i a t e e n v i r o n m e n t a l l a w , i n c l u d i n g 1 0 U S C 2700–2710, 42 USC 9601 and those that follow, 40 CFR 300, and applicable DOD and Army regulations and policy, using the most appropriate technology or other types of response actions to ensure the protection of public safety, health, and the environment consistent with the current land use or reasonably foreseeable future use of the property. 5–3.
Explosives Safety Management Program The ESMPs will implement and comply with this chapter and DA Pam 385–64. The ESMPs will— a. Address organization and staffing, site planning, facilities conformance, emergency response, tenants, master planning, ranges, contractors, accident prevention program, facility maintenance, demilitarization/destruction, CRM, explosives safety issuances, records management, inspections/evaluations/audits, and training. b.
Identify the safety responsibilities of all organizations (including tenants that will be covered by a memorandum of agreement) with A&E missions and functions (for example, research, testing, manufacturing, transportation, storage, and demilitarization). c. Define safety office direct access to commander and lines of communication and reporting between the safety office and other organizations with an explosives safety function. d. Prescribe responsibilities and procedures for knowledgeable and qualified personnel to develop, coordinate, review, and approve site plans, safety submissions, and facility designs. e.
Prescribe responsibilities, requirements, and procedures that ensure qualified personnel develop, coordinate, review, and approve explosives safety waiver and exemption requests for facilities and equipment, as delineated in DA Pam 385–30, and provide the commander with essential risk data regarding the deficient situation. 38 AR 385–10 • 23 August 2007/RAR 4 October 2011