Attendees of the Second Assistance and Protection Training Course for Instructors
The Second Assistance and Protection Training Course for Instructors took place from 1 to 8 May 2013 at OPCW Headquarters in The Hague. This training was a follow up to the pilot project, which was successfully conducted in November of last year. Involving 21 instructors from 21 different State Parties*, the aim was to provide capacity to create a training on response to incidents involving chemical weapons.
The course offered an introduction to the use of individual and collective protective equipment; to monitoring, detection, and decontamination; and to sampling techniques.
This project will have a positive impact on the development of national and regional capacities to protect against chemical weapons. The trainings organized at OPCW headquarters with instructors from the Technical Secretariat are the basis for the development of OPCW’s capabilities as a repository of knowledge. The knowledge and broad range of expertise participants gained from the Technical Secretariat will be beneficial for the trainings that they will conduct in the future in their home countries and elsewhere, and will be instrumental in spreading and maintaining expertise in chemical weapons protection.
* Algeria, Argentine Bolivia, Chile, China, Cuba, Guyana, India, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Zimbabwe