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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
Actual 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.
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Created at 12/03/2024 14:00 by System Account
Last modified at 16/05/2024 08:00 by System Account
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