CMLP 2.6_English: Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents

CBRN threats may result from industrial site, pipeline or transportation accidents or as deliberate, hostile acts where terrorists, single-issue extremists and others weaponize toxic industrial chemicals, acquire or manufacture crude chemical or biological agents, or create dirty bombs through dispersing radioactive materials stolen from medical or industrial facilities using conventional explosives. In some instances, nation states use chemical agents against their own or neighboring populations and stockpiles of military grade agents remain present in some of the most unstable parts of the world. Being able to identify that a CBRN risk is present and respond sufficiently quickly to protect people demands knowledge and mini-brief is designed to quickly provide this to staff, enabling them to prepare for, avoid, and, if required, [self-help] respond to protect themselves and others.