Duration
5 days
Frequency
7 courses per year
Location
Phoenix. HMS Excellent
IELTS
6
Aim
To prepare specialist officers and senior rates appointed to ships as an CBRN Protection Officer or an CBRN Protection Officer’s assistant.
Course details
Topics covered include:
- Hazards of CBRN agents
- Ships CBRN protection
- Effects of nuclear weapons
- Plotting hazard areas training
- Warning and reporting of CBRN hazards
- CBRN detection instruments
- Exercising ships response to a nuclear weapon incident
- Exercising ships response to chemical weapon incident
- Ship monitoring and decontamination
- Familiarisation with cleansing station and drills
- Command advice for operating in a CBRN environment
Remarks
The ‘plotting hazard areas’ and warning and reporting’ section of the syllabus (8 periods) uses NATO classified publications and procedures.