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Reusable Respirators: The Unsung COVID-19 Heroes

By Jeremy Urekew, Hazmat Specialist with the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue system "We rely on clean air with a suitable oxygen concentration to keep...

Quo Vadis – Unprepared for the Next Pandemic?

By Guy B. Roberts, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Defense Programs The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how people live and...

COVID-19 and Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE): An Overview

By Elisa Morin, Consultant, IB Consultancy Of all the coronavirus-induce subjects, masks, their types, their use, their certifications might me the blurriest. Ever since the...

COVID-19 response and issues in Japan

By Dr. Yasuhiro Kanatani, MD, PhD COVID-19, a biological weapon? Anthrax, Ebola, Plague, Smallpox, and Botulinum are considered extremely high-risk pathogens to be used as biological...

A guide to COVID-19 Testing Methods

By Anna Paternnosto & Ophélie Guillouet-Lamy As the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading across the globe, the economic and social consequences of the crisis are becoming...

COVID-19: The Challenges for Colombian Fire Fighters

By Sgt. Javier Carlos and Chief Wilmar Cristancho, Specialized Team of Hazardous Materials and CBRN Agents of the Bogota Fire Department The city of Bogota...

Post-Event Report NCT América del Sur 2020

HOW WAS IT AT NCT SOUTH AMERICA 2020? The 3rd edition of NCT South America took place between February 4th and 5th 2020 in Bogotá,...

Cambodia & Thailand, Demining/EOD Country Profile

By Katerina Zejdlova, Analyst, IB Consultancy Security situation overview: Antipersonnel mines in Thailand & Cambodia As a region marred by a history of complex cross-border and...

Not Too Worried About Nerve Agents? You Should Be…

By Stephen Elliott, Member, CBRNe Society Toxic - A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia (Hurst, London) serves as a dark...

Interview: BG (Ret.) William King, Chairman of the upcoming NCT USA 2020 Conference

Why should NCT USA 2020 be the “Not to Miss” USA edition of the NCT events? Given the threats that America faces today from Wuhan...

CBRNe Country Profile Australia

By Elisa Morin, Analyst, IB Consultancy Security Situation Overview The current security situation in Australia could not be fully described without mentioning this season’s fires, which...

The Four Pillars and Keys of Successful Interoperability

By Lt. Alvaro Toñanez, Exercise Planner/Training Officer, Hazardous Materials Bureau, Miami Dade Fire and Rescue, USA Because new threats emerge from around the world, the...

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