Course Listings and Descriptions

MWB/LB-181 : Explosives
* A Dangerous and Hazardous Business
* Training for Explosive Test Operators, Explosive Ordnance Operators, or Engineers/Scientists Directing Testing
* Overview of Explosives & Energetic Materials: Do's & Don'ts
* Classification of Explosives
* Initiators of Explosives:Caps, Primers, Fuzes, Detonators
* Detonation:High and Low Order
* The TEst Range Processing Area-General Rules
* Test Item Preparation; Firing Systems
* How to Set Up a Shot-Position a Chard, Hook-up, Safety Considerations; Quantity of Charge and Safe Distance
* Shaped Chardes; Linear Charges; Explosively Formed Penetrators; shallow Cone Liners, etc.
* Overview of Bombs, Fuzes and OtherExplosive Devices
* Effects of Containment: Effects of Charge Placement
* Sequence of Events in Explosives Testing
* Research and Development Testing
* Range Set-up and Testing: Personnel and Equipment Requirements
* Propellants: Granular; Liquid; Stick; etc.
* Primers:Types; Ignition Trains; Ignition Trchniques
* Guns: Propellants and Primer/Ignition Interaction
* Deflagration versus Detonation
* Safety in Handlin, Storage, Transportation and Operation
* Environmental Consideration for Explosives
* Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
* Operating With Explosives: Safety Procedures and Cautions
* Instrumentation for Use on/or with Explosive Devices
* Standard Operating Procedures: Formulation, Implementation & Operation
* When to Stop a Test; When to Stop a Non Safe Order- Immediately
* Mishaps - Accidents, Duds, Misfires, Waiting Times
* Misfire Procedures: Cautions in Retracing Testing Set-up
* Malfunction of an Explosive Device, or Gun System: Render Safe Procedure(s) (RSP); Duds
* Emergency Procedures and Preparations for Explosive Ranges
* Emergency Procedures and Preparations for Gun Ranges
* After Test Clean-Up: Hazards, Lefdt Over Contaminated Material; Processing Equipment and Test Equipment
* Lessons Learned: Catastrophic Accidents-fatal; Loss of Sight and Loss of Limbs; etc.

OBJECTIVE & SCOPE

The basics of explosives, their safe handling and use is the PRIMARY objective of this course - it WILL NOT CERTIFY anyone to handle and operate with explosives- it is designed to compliment the requirements each facility may have to qualify their people to use Explosives, Explosive Devices and Guns.

Certification to handle explosives should be a course designed around intensive classroom and hands-on field training- for each facilities specific needs.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

There are no prerequisites for this fcourse, or any course offered by Baldini Resource Associates, Inc..

This course is designed for the Technician or Ordnance Operator who does their own testing and/or the Engineer/Scientist who directs and/or designs the experimental test.