Intro -- CBRN and Hazmat Incidents at Major Public Events: Planning and Response -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- PART I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Threat Environment -- Adverse Effects -- Causative Agents: The Spectrum of CBRN/HAZMAT Substances -- Means of Dissemination -- Causative Agents: the Perpetrator -- Multipliers in the Major Event Environment -- Nuisances, Hoaxes, and Communicated Threats -- CBRN/HAZMAT Substances: Characteristics Significant as Planning Considerations -- CHAPTER 2 Differing Perspectives and Philosophies on CBRN/HAZMAT Planning and Response -- Fire Service and HAZMAT -- Military CBRN Defense Philosophy -- Perspective of Police, Law Enforcement, and Security Services -- The Private Security Provider's Perspective -- Medical Perspective -- Scientific and Laboratory Perspective -- PART II General Planning and Preparedness Efforts -- CHAPTER 3 CBRN in Context: Interagency Planning and Cooperation -- Swimming in the Sea: Keeping CBRN/HAZMAT in Context -- The Safety and Security Bureaucracy: The Sea in Which We Swim -- Interagency Planning and Coordination -- Incident Management Systems -- The Operations Center -- Best Practices -- Common Language -- CHAPTER 4 General Planning Considerations at an Early Stage -- Establish your Planning Threshold -- Reconnaissance: Site Surveys and Walkthroughs -- Resilience -- Legal Considerations -- Communications -- CHAPTER 5 Building Capability and Capacity -- Survey the Existing Capability -- Surveying Capacity -- The Synchronization Matrix as a Planning Tool -- Assessment Schemes -- Training and Exercises -- CHAPTER 6 Equipment Procurement -- Preparing for the Onslaught of Vendors -- Hazard Prediction- Is it Useful? -- Sensors: Surveillance and Warning -- Protection Technology -- CHAPTER 7 Dealing with Event Venues -- Major Types of Venue.

Architectural, Structural, and Construction considerations -- Planning Considerations for Building Construction -- Securing Venues -- Venue Search -- Screening People -- Screening Goods and Vehicles -- PART III The Response Disciplines -- CHAPTER 8 Medical Preparedness -- How will CBRN/HAZMAT Present itself to the Medical System? -- The Concept of "Special Events Medical Services -- General Planning Considerations -- Mass Casualty Planning -- Hospital Decontamination -- Medical Surveillance -- Dealing with the "Worried Well -- CHAPTER 9 Police, Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Security Preparedness -- Breaking the Cycle: Disrupting the Process of Terrorism -- Preparing to Operate in a CBRN/HAZMAT Environment -- CHAPTER 10 Preparedness for the Fire and HAZMAT Sector -- Adapting the Response to the Major Event Environment -- Decontamination -- Search and Rescue in the Hot Zone? -- Keeping the Detectives Happy: Learning not to Wreck the Crime Scene -- CHAPTER 11 The Military: Preparing for Military Support to Civil Authorities -- The Nature of Military Support to Civil Authorities -- Types of Military Support to CBRN/HAZMAT Incidents -- Some Issues and Problems with Military Support -- Some Ideas to Integrate Military Support -- CHAPTER 12 Preparedness for Everybody Else -- Public Transportation and Transport Infrastructure -- Financial and Administrative Preparedness -- Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Bomb Squad -- Legal Preparedness -- Preparedness for Event and Venue Management -- Laboratory and Scientific Preparedness -- Reach-Back -- VIP Protection Considerations -- PART IV Response -- CHAPTER 13 Initial Assessment and Response -- The Golden Hour -- Initial Assessment of the Incident -- Arriving on Scene: Managing the Incident with GEDAPER -- Tactics for the Incident Commander and Responder.

CHAPTER 14 Detection, Measurement, and Identification of Hazards -- Concepts and Definitions -- Primitive" and "Nonspecific" Sensors -- Chemical and HAZMAT Sensors -- Biological Sensors -- Radiological and Nuclear Sensors -- Integrating Detection and Identification into Operations -- Best Practices for Major Events -- What Not to Do -- CHAPTER 15 Medical Response -- How Will the CBRN/HAZMAT Patient Look? -- Managing the Incident: Being Realistic in Chemical Scenarios -- Field Care: Remember the ABCDD -- Alphabet Soup: Managing the ABCDD in an MCI -- Definitive Care: the Larger Picture -- CHAPTER 16 Decontamination -- Why do Decontamination? -- Issues and Arguments Surrounding Decon -- Categories of Decontamination -- Methods of Decontamination -- Decontamination: Planning Considerations and Tactics -- CHAPTER 17 Law Enforcement and Security Response -- Scene Control and Public Order Issues -- Intervention Scenarios -- Forensics: Collection and Preservation of Criminal Evidence -- The Crime Scene -- Collecting Evidence at a Contaminated Crime Scene -- CHAPTER 18 Consequence Management and Other Related Measures -- Consequence Management -- Public and Media Affairs -- Dealing with the Dead -- Volunteers and "Unaffiliated Responders -- References -- PART V Practical Scenarios -- SCENARIO A The Venue Search -- SCENARIO B Screening People, Vehicles, and Goods -- SCENARIO C Radiation Detection and Radiation Alerts -- SCENARIO D Unattended and/or Suspicious Packages -- SCENARIO E A "Communicated Threat -- SCENARIO F An Anthrax Letter -- SCENARIO G Industrial HAZMAT Accidents -- SCENARIO H Suspicious Odors and Unexplained Illness -- SCENARIO I External Chemical Attack -- SCENARIO J Internal Chemical Attack -- SCENARIO K The Biological Attack -- SCENARIO L The Crime Scene -- SCENARIO M The "Dirty Bomb" and Structural Collapse -- Appendices.

APPENDIX A Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms -- APPENDIX B Threat Basis and Planning Threshold -- APPENDIX C Template for a CBRN/HAZMAT Site Survey -- APPENDIX D Task Lists, Capability Survey, and Capacity Survey -- APPENDIX E Synchronization Matrix for CBRN/HAZMAT Response at a Major Event -- APPENDIX F Sample Detection and Identification Decision Trees -- APPENDIX G If You Only Read One Page, Read This One! -- Bibliography -- Index.