Affiliation:
1. U.S. Defense Centers for Public Health—Aberdeen, Toxicology Directorate, 8252 Blackhawk Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010-5403, USA
Abstract
Ensuring for the national defense requires the use of substances such as energetics, propellants, pyrotechnics, and other materials in environmental applications. Systems that use these materials do so in testing and training environments and must be used in an environmentally sustained manner to ensure success during actual kinetic defensive operations. Environmental and occupational health assessments require a weighted evaluation of toxicity, bioaccumulation, persistence, and environmental fate and transport considerations for each substance in the formulation to include potential combustion products. Data that support these criteria need to be collected in a phased and matrixed approach and considered iteratively as technology advances. Further, these criteria are often considered as disparate and separate; hence, comparing favorable aspects of one may or may not offset detrimental data from another. Here, we describe an approach to the phased collection of environmental, safety, and occupational health (ESOH) information for new systems and substances and provide recommendations for evaluating such data streams in making decisions for use and for evaluating alternatives.
Funder
Army DEVCOM Safer Alternatives for Acquisition (SAFR) Program and the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
Subject
Chemical Health and Safety,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Toxicology
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