Review of the Army's Technical Guides on Assessing and Managing Chemical Hazards to Deployed Personnel

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Publication Year:2004

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Subcommittee on the Toxicological Risks to Deployed Military Personnel, Committee on Toxicology, National Research Council
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To guide mission planning, military decision makers need information on the health risks of potential exposures to individual soldiers and their potential impact on mission operations. To help with the assessment of chemical hazards, the U.S. Army Center for Health ...
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Front Matter	i-xx
Summary	1-15	(skim)
1 Introduction	16-26	(skim)
2 Review of the Army's Technical Guidance	27-46	(skim)
3 Review of Key Concepts, Assumptions, and Decisions Made in Developing TG-248, TG-230, and RD-230	47-75	(skim)
4 A New Set of Exposure Guidelines: Chemical Casualty Estimating Guidelines	76-90	(skim)
5 Process for Establishing and Applying Military Exposure Guidelines	91-130	(skim)
Appendix A Errata, Inconsistencies, and Comments on Specific Aspects of TG-248, TG-230, and RD-230	131-136	(skim)
Appendix B Review of Acceptable Cancer Risk Levels	137-144	(skim)
Appendix C Example Use of Probits for Developing Chemical Casualty Estimating Guidelines	145-174	(skim)
Appendix D Critical Studies and Uncertainty Factors Used in Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Chemical Warfare Agents	175-180	(skim)
Appendix E Probabilistic Approach to Address Exposure to Multiple Chemicals for Course-of-Action Analysis	181-186	(skim)
Appendix F Biographical Information on the Subcommittee on Toxicological Risks to Deployed Military Personnel	187-192	(skim)
Appendix G Definitions	193-195	(skim)

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To guide mission planning, military decision makers need information on the health risks of potential exposures to individual soldiers and their potential impact on mission operations. To help with the assessment of chemical hazards, the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine developed three technical guides for characterizing chemicals in terms of their risks to the mission and to the health of the force. The report reviews these guides for their scientific validity and conformance with current risk-assessment practices. The report finds that the military exposure guidelines are appropriate (with some modification) for providing force health protection, but that for assessing mission risk, a new set of exposure guidelines is needed that predict concentrations at which health effects would degrade the performance of enough soldiers to hinder mission accomplishment.

Review of the Army's Technical Guides on Assessing and Managing Chemical Hazards to Deployed Personnel

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