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Show incompetence or unreliability by any other
behavior
You should recognize that ordnance incidents and
mishaps can and do happen through accidental acts,
carelessness, and minor rule infractions. They also
happen through deliberate acts, negligence, and major
rule infractions. With the commanding officer’s
approval, personnel with a revoked certification must be
retrained until you consider them requalified and
recertified. However, their behavior may show that
retraining may not be effective. You should then assign
them to other tasks not involving explosive devices.
Revoking the certification of military personnel requires
an entry in the proper portion of their individual service
record. The entry must state the specific reason for the
revocation.
For information on qualification and certification
procedures, you should consult type commander
directives, enclosure 5 of OPNAVINST 8023.2C, and
NAVSEAINST 8020.9A for naval shore activities.
EXPLOSIVES MISHAP OR
CONVENTIONAL ORDNANCE
DEFICIENCY REPORTING
PROCEDURES
A significant potential for damage or injury exists
in mishaps involving explosives. Therefore, the
requirements for reporting explosives mishaps are more
extensive than those for reporting other types of
mishaps. To report those mishaps properly, you first
need to understand the meaning of the following terms:
Explosives Mishap. An incident or accident
involving conventional ordnance, ammunition,
explosives, or explosive systems and devices resulting
in an unintentional detonation, firing, deflagration,
burning, launching of ordnance material (including all
ordnance impacting off range), leaking or spilling of
propellant fuels and oxidizers, or release of a chemical
agent. Even if an ordnance system works as designed, if
human error contributed to an incident or accident
resulting in damage, death, or injury, the event is an
explosives mishap.
Explosive Material. A chemical, or a mixture of
chemicals, that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with
or without an outside supply of oxygen) freeing large
quantities of energy in the form of blast, light, and hot
gases. Incendiary materials and certain fuels and
oxidizers that can be made to undergo a similar chemical
change are also considered explosive materials.
Conventional Ordnance Deficiency. A malfunc-
tion, observed defect, or induced defect involving
conventional ordnance, explosives, ammunition,
explosive systems, devices, or support and handling
equipment used to handle, load, store, or transport
ordnance.
Chemical Agent. A chemical compound intended
for use in military operations to kill, seriously injure, or
incapacitate people through its chemical properties.
Excluded are riot control agents, chemical herbicides,
smoke and flames, pesticides, and industrial chemicals
unrelated to chemical warfare.
REPORTABLE MISHAPS AND
DEFICIENCIES
When you report explosives mishaps and
conventional ordnance deficiencies, use the format
described in chapter 5 of OPNAVINST 5102.1C,
Mishap Investigation and Reporting; enclosure (7) of
OPNAVINST 5100.21 B, Afloat Safety Program; and
chapter 10 of OPNAVINST 8600.2A, Naval Airborne
Weapons Maintenance Program (NAWMP).
Reportable mishaps and deficiencies include incidents
and malfunctions involving non-nuclear explosives,
explosive ordnance, chemical agents, and explosive
systems.
Explosives Mishaps
The following describes events you should report as
explosives mishaps. When reporting these events, use
the format described in the applicable instruction listed
in the preceding paragraph:
Detonation, Deflagration, Burning, or Firing. An
unintentional initiation, or explosion, or reaction
of an explosive material, component, or system.
Accidental discharge of all guns, including small
arms.
Inadvertent Launch. An unintentional launching
of a weapon.
Chemical Agent Release. Any intentional
launching of a-weapon resulting in the following:
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Damage to property from contamination, or
costs incurred for decontamination
Physiological symptoms of agent exposure
exhibited by individuals
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