Contents

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Chemical Weapon Convention

• Introduction
• Historical review
• The Chemical Weapons Convention
• The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
  
  • Introduction
  • Conference of the States Parties
  • Executive Council
  • Technical Secretariat
• Article X of the Convention
  
  • Ensuring Preparedness
  • Responding to the Use of Chemical Weapons
  • Investigations of Alleged Use
  • Technical Assistance Visits
  • Fact-Finding Mission
• Nobel Peace prize

Chapter 2 Physico-chemical properties of toxic chemicals

• States of matter.
• Chemical formula and molecular weight.
•  Density 
• Vapor pressure
• Solubility
• Toxicity
  
  • Toxicological values
  • AEGL
  • ERPG
  • TEEL

Chapter 3 Chemical warfare agents and Toxic chemicals

• Introduction
• Chemical weapons
• Chemical warfare agents
  
  • Blister Agents
  • Choking agents
  • Blood agents
  • Nerve agents
  •  Riot Control agents
• Toxic industrial chemicals
• Toxic industrial chemicals. Examples
  
  • PHOSGENE Carbonyl chloride; Chloroformyl chloride
  • DICHLOROMETHANE Methylene chloride; DCM
  • PHENOL Carbolic acid; Phenic acid; Hydroxybenzene
  • CHLORINE
  • HYDROGEN SULFIDE Dihydrogen sulphide; Hydrogen sulphide
  • AMMONIA (ANHYDROUS)
  • TRIMETHYLCHLOROSILANE Chlorotrimethylsilane; Trimethyl silyl chloride; Chlorotrimethylsilicane

Chapter 4 Introduction to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Introduction
• Respiratory protection
  
  • Generalities
  • Dependent respiratory protection. Filtering
  • Mask Filter Selection
  • Independent respiratory protection. SCBA
• Chemical protection suits
  
  • Generalities
  • Protection barriers
  • OPCW Protection Levels

Chapter 5  Decontamination

• Introduction
• Decontamination overview
  
  • Generalities
  • Decontamination Location
  • Decontamination Methods
  • Basic tasks to carry out in the decontamination corridors
• Decontamination stations and corridors
  
  • Generalities
  • Entrance Corridor to the Red Zone
  • Operator Decontamination Corridor
  • Victim decontamination corridor
  • Mass casualty corridor
• CWA Decontamination 
  
  • Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Characteristics of decontaminating agents
  • Decontaminating agents and solutions

Chapter 6 Detection and Identification

• Introduction
• Recognition procedures
• Detection and Identification
• Detection
  
  • General aspects of detection
  • Colorimetric detection techniques
  • Flame photometry, FS
  • Photoionization, PID
  • Fundamentals Ion Mobility Spectrometry, IMS
  • Sensors for Gas Detection
• Identification
  
  • Introduction
  • GC
  • HPLC
  • Infrared Spectroscopy, IR
  • Raman Spectroscopy, RM
  • DIM devices

Chapter 7 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)

• Generalities
• Yellow pages/section
• Blue pages/section
• Orange pages/section
• Green pages/section
• Criminal or Terrorist use of Chemical, Biological and Radiological agents
• Summary of changes ERG 2024 vs ERG 2020

Chapter 8 CAMEO Chemicals)

• Overview
• Search chemicals
• Search chemicals by name
• Search chemicals by UN number
• Chemical reactivity

Chapter 9 The Incident Command System (ICS)

• Introduction
• Emergency incident response phases
• Cordon Control
• Incident Command Systmem (ICS)
• ICS Definitions
• ICS Structure, elements and responsibilities
• How to protect the population during a chemical emergency?
• Radio procedures