CBRN Safety 066
CBRN Safety 066 : Chapter I - Overview: (6) Limitation and Mitigation Strategies (A) Risk Management: (1) Risk Assessment: In conducting risk management, the JFC should employ risk assessment procedures to help identify hazards and then assess those hazards to determine risk. Assessment is usually a mechanical process of assessing the probability of the incident or occurrence, estimating the expected result or severity of an incident or occurrence, and then determining specified level of risk for a given probability and severity. Matrixes and tables are often used to assist in this process. The joint force may have an established standard operating procedure for risk assessment. (2) Risk Control: Risk management entails developing controls and making risk decisions, implementing those controls, and then supervising and evaluating. Maintaining safety discipline is extremely important during CBRN response operations. The heightened sense of urgency in working to help parents, children, and the elderly who have been contaminated may impact on decisions and cause Service members to want to take more personal risk. Other examples of long-term hazards requiring leaders to establish controls that consider the reason for the hazard and not just the hazard itself include climatic extremes, CBRN and hazardous waste contamination, or disease threats within the particular operational area or indigenous population. (B) Operational and Strategic Risk: Any CBRN response must be rapid in order to save lives and minimize the overall impact of the incident. JFCs providing CBRN incident response need to have viable plans and be prepared to make rapid decisions with minimal knowledge of the scope and magnitude of the incident. Self-confidence and high competency are necessary to execute effectively in a hazardous environment. Those forces committed by DOD to this mission as part of national preparedness need to be trained and ready when the nation calls. When these conditions are met, the risk of strategic and operational failure has been minimized
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