EP 1110-1-18
24 Apr 00
b. Safety of Contractor Personnel. All contractor personnel will be trained and skilled in
their assigned positions in accordance with the guidance provided in paragraph 20-4b of this
chapter. The contractor will ensure that their work force complies with OSHA requirements and
will assign a UXO Safety Officer for each project. The UXO Safety Officer will be corporately
responsible for the health and safety environment of the contractor's work force. The
government's safety specialist will provide safety oversight to ensure the contractor's compliance
with established policies and procedures. The contractor will be required to prepare a SSHP and
present site-specific training to the work force prior to work beginning; attendance at the training
will be documented.
20-4. Personnel Standards. The OE MCX has set forth personnel standards applicable to all
USACE OE safety specialists and UXO contractor personnel working for the USACE. The
following personnel standards detail the prerequisites for education and experience required for
UXO personnel. The standards are minimums only and may be exceeded at any time; however,
they will not be relaxed without the approval of the OE MCX.
a. OE Safety Specialists.
(1) Prerequisite Experience. Any USACE employee involved in the execution,
supervision, or oversight of ordnance related activities inside the exclusion zone, will be a
graduate of the U.S. Naval Explosives Ordnance Disposal School, Indian Head, MD. This
experience must be demonstrated by the following abilities:
(a) The ability to identify fuzing, precautions that must be taken, fuze condition (e.g.,
armed, functioned, or armed and functioning), and how this condition can or will affect the
munition payload should other external forces be applied.
(b) The ability to recognize munition/ordnance types and determine hazards and make risk
assessments. This includes identifying potential fillers including those in extremely deteriorated
condition (e.g., high explosives , fragmentation, white phosphorus, and chemical warfare
materiel). Must also be able to determine if munitions can be moved before destroying, or if the
munition must be blown-in-place; the fragmentation radius, or in the case of chemical warfare
materiel, the potential down-wind hazard along with the engineering controls to mitigate both.
(2) On-Site Responsibilities. An OE Safety Specialist will be on-site each day during
intrusive and OE destruction activities. This on-site requirement may only be reduced after a
written request is reviewed and approved by the OE MCX.
(a) The OE Safety Specialist is on-site to ensure that the contractor establishes the
appropriate daily safety routines at the beginning of UXO field operations, to perform quality
assurance oversight, to verify contractor employee UXO qualifications, to advise the contractor
on UXO procedures, to coordinate with the PM, and to facilitate EOD response when needed.
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