A new approach to CBRN-E standardisation

Join PEERS Demonstrators and our subject-specific sessions focused on SOPs, NATO standards uptake in civil applications, medical countermeasures and decontamination (online, October 2024)

Other than for a few specialist teams, CBRN-E is only one aspect of a busy responders life. Limited training and exercising time and even less frequent exposure to real events. Most likely their information will be coming from the Hazmat environment being scaled-up as necessary for the greater security implications of an intentional deployment of toxic agents.

For this reason, CBRN-E specialists within responder organisations need to have a ready and easy access to credible, current and reliable information about the equipment, training, guidance and standards that they should be referencing and deploying.

PEERS aims to provide just such a system. For any given CBRN discipline, a user should be able to enter a search term such as “dry decontamination” or “gas-tight”.

The system is being developed to present the user with a hierarchy of information including official standards at the top but also providing sign-posts to common but less assured guidance notes, standard operational procedures and current research initiatives. In this manner, the CBRN-E responder or capability manager can quickly gain an understanding of the technical ecosystem of the subject they are looking into. Less applicable in the response phase, PEERS can also be a an invaluable tool to support training, compliance research and/or thematic assurance reviews.

Through three subject-specific focuses, we are now commencing a programme of Demonstrator Groups to walk practitioners through the system and to gain feedback on development so far for its further improvement based on the following:

  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • The use of NATO standards in civil applications
  • Medical countermeasures and decontamination.

The first session is online on 16th October and will be followed by repeat sessions on 23rd October and 30th October 2024. You only need to attend one of them. If you would be prepared to support this substantial development in CBRN-E knowledge sharing, then please have a look at the agenda and regiser to hear more and become involved with the demonstrations!