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• Neighborhood Emergency Help Center Concept Validation Final Report

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  This report describes the validation process for the Neighborhood Emergency Help Center (NEHC), performed as part of the national Domestic Preparedness (DP) Program. The report briefly describes the DP Program, the Biological Warfare Improved Response Program (BWIRP), and development of the BW Response Template. The report then presents the validation methodology used to test and evaluate the NEHC component of the template. Finally, the report provides the results of the NEHC validation testing process and recommendations for improving the NEHC design.

  U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

  Walther, John D.; Freeman, Marvin; Hayes, Susan

  2000-12
• Decontamination Equipment Standards Workshop for Civilian First Responders

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  "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 [American Society for Testing and Materials] standard for civilian first responder decontamination systems."

  Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

  Bowen, Shawn; Beebe, Matthew; Walther, John D.

  2009-12
• Civilian First Responder Decontamination Equipment Characteristics Survey Results

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  From the Introduction:"Current users of decontamination equipment have a wide range of procurement options. In most cases, users must rely on little more than vendor claims and their professional experience to determine the best equipment for decontaminating the general public, themselves, and their own equipment. These users, called First Responders, include fire fighters, hazardous material teams, police officers, emergency medical technicians, and other professionals in charge of decontamination after an event. To better enable First Responders to choose the most effective decontamination equipment for their applications, the DHS/NIST Standards Development Team, Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), was tasked by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Washington, DC, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, to develop equipment performance standards for the Response community. The Standards Development Team tasked the Decision Analysis Team (DAT) to determine the important characteristics of equipment used by First Responders in personnel decontamination operations. These characteristics will be used to develop recommended equipment performance standards for adoption by various Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)."

  Edgewood Research, Development, & Engineering Center (U.S.)

  Walther, John D.; Bowen, Shawn; Kooistra, Scott

  2010-01