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| Activity title | Guidelines for Evaluation of Personal Protective Materiel and Systems Against Blast | Activity Reference | HFM-372 | Panel | HFM | Security Classification | NATO UNCLASSIFIED | Status | Active | Activity type | RTG | Start date | 2024-04-18T00:00:00Z | End date | 2027-04-18T00:00:00Z | Keywords | Blast, emerging threats, PPE, precision warfare, subterranean, urban | Background | The emergence of new threat environments such as subterranean/urban warfare and the use of non-IED-like explosives can have serious and potentially unique detrimental effects on NATO operations. There is currently little, if any, information available on the effectiveness of personal protective equipment against primary blast (blast overpressure), and the resultant severities of traumatic systemic and brain injuries (including survival) that is anticipated as a result from these emerging threats, which is critical to understand for force readiness across the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operations.
Recently NATO Human Factors and Medicine (HFM)- Exploratory Team (ET)-194 identified and reported gaps in current blast testing and methodologies on personnel protective equipment effectiveness evaluation, as well as recommended future research directions.
| Objectives | The primary objectives of this proposed RTG are
1. Review the current state of science and methodologies for testing and evaluating blast personal protective equipment (PPE) effectiveness for different NATO operation scenarios.
2. Develop revised guidelines for PPE materiel and systems related to blast testing methodologies, improvised surrogates, and injury risk assessment.
| Topics | Research related to the effectiveness (e.g., injury risk reduction) of the current and next-gen PPE against emerging blast threat environments (e.g., primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary, and their combination) in varied scenarios, including subterranean and urban warfare. | | Contact Panel Office |
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