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About this book
By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only three countries will possess chemical weapons-the United States, Russia, and Libya.In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress mandated that the Army and its contractors destroy the stockpile while ensuring maximum safety for workers, the public, and the environment. The destruction program has proceeded without serious exposure of any worker or member of the public to chemical agents, and risk to the public from a storage incident involving the aging stockpile has been reduced by more than 90 percent from what it was at the time destruction began on Johnston Island and in the continental United States.At this time, safety at chemical agent disposal facilities is far better than the national average for all industries. Even so, the Army and its contractors are desirous of further improvement. To this end, the Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) asked the NRC to assist by reviewing CMA's existing safety and environmental metrics and making recommendations on which additional metrics might be developed to further improve its safety and environmental programs.
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Table of contents
- FrontMatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgment of Reviewers
- Contents
- Tables and Figure
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Summary of Current Safety and Environmental Metrics at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
- 3 Review and Evaluation of Metrics Currently Used at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
- 4 Assessment of Other Metrics Potentially Applicable to Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
- 5 Findings and Recommendations
- Appendixes
- Appendix A; Glossary
- Appendix B: Safety and Environmental Metrics Employed by Private Companies Surveyed for This Report
- Appendix C: Committee Meetings
- Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members