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INCIDENT REPORTS
RESOURCES
Explosives Safety Measures
Munitions that may be encountered during construction or other activities such as firefighting or commercial fishing, pose an explosives safety hazard and a risk of injury or death.
- For your protection and the protection of others, never:
- Enter an operational range or areas known or suspected to contain munitions.
- Approach, touch, move or disturb a munition or suspect munition.
- Take a munition as a souvenir.
- If you encounter or suspect you may have encountered a munition during an activity:
- Stop work in the vicinity of the munition or suspect munition.
- Visually scan the area for additional munitions; and
- Do not move closer, but carefully leave the area the same way that you entered.
- Mark the area, If possible, where munitions were encountered, but do not mark the munition itself.
- Notify your supervisor or the police immediately.
- Remember:
- Munitions, whether intact or in fragments, present a potential explosive hazard.
- If you did not drop it, do not disturb or pick it up!
- - when you may have encountered a munition and that munitions are dangerous.
- - do not approach, touch, move or disturb it, but carefully leave the area.
- - call 911 and advise the police of what you saw and where you saw it.
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