| dc.description.abstract | The overall aim of the project “Preparedness and Resilience Against CBRN Terrorism using
Integrated Concepts and Equipment” (PRACTICE) is to improve the ability to respond to and
recover from a Chemical (C), Biological (B), Radiological (R) or Nuclear (N) incident. The objective
of the project is to create an integrated European approach to a CBRN crisis – i.e. a European
Integrated CBRN Response System. This will be achieved through the development of an
improved system of tools, methods and procedures that is going to provide EU with a capability to
carry out a truly integrated and coordinated operational reaction following the occurrence of a
CBRN crisis, whether it is caused by a terrorist act or an accident.
The objective of the work package (WP) 2 on selection of scenarios and identification of critical
event parameters is to:
• Produce a template for scenarios and requirements, as a basis to make a selection of
appropriate and representative CBRN-scenarios.
• Based on the selected scenarios and experience from exercises, real events and
experience from earlier relevant projects, identify, describe and organize sets of critical
event parameters/observables characterizing the events, which first responders and
authorities use as input for selecting, prioritising and in a number of cases developing
appropriate emergency preparedness and response measures.
• Identify a set of non-terrorist accident scenarios, which will be used as reference to sort out
CBRN-specific parameters/observables and as an aid to the gap analysis to be carried out
in WP4.
• To create – as part of a CBRN response toolbox and training kit to be developed in WP4,
WP5, WP6 and WP7 – a set of publicly available CBRN scenarios (not classified) that can
be used by the European countries for emergency preparedness planning, education,
training, and exercises. Such a set of publicly available scenarios is not available today.
WP2 is divided in three tasks with associated deliverables:
• Task 2.1. Scenario template and requirements
o Deliverable D2.1 (a) Detailed scenario template and requirements for
consequence assessments and (b) collection of submitted scenarios (those
publicly available) and information on accidents
• Task 2.2. Reference set of scenarios
o Deliverable D2.2 Reference set of CBRN scenarios covering releases of
hazardous chemical (C), biological (B) and radiological (R) substances
• Task 2.3. Consequence assessments and identification of critical event parameters
o Deliverable D2.3 Consequence assessments of the selected set of reference
CBRN scenarios and critical event parameters
This report, “D2.3A Critical event parameters”, constitutes the first part of the third deliverable of
WP2 “Scenarios and critical event parameters” of the EU FP7 project PRACTICE. The second
part “D2.3B Consequence assessments of the reference set of CBRN scenarios” is given in a
separate report (Breivik et al., 2012). This WP is led by the Norwegian Defence Research
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