SCOPE The GICHD IED Clearance Good Practice Guide is a technical publication intended for use by MA staff that are suitably trained and qualified in IED search and / or disposal. The intention is to help ‘operationalise’ and ‘institutionalise’ IED clearance as part of the MA response. The guide complies with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS), which provide the framework for response to all explosive ordnance contamination, under the conditions of humanitarian principles. It is intended for use by MA organisations, national authorities, operational implementers and training providers. It may be used by such staff as a source of reference in the delivery of training, but it is not intended as a training manual in itself. This guide complements the IMAS released in early 2019 for IED Disposal (IMAS 09.31), Building Clearance (IMAS 09.13) and Risk Management in Mine Action (IMAS 07.14). It acknowledges that post- conflict IED contamination occurs in urban, semi-urban and rural locations. It seeks to communicate sectorial good practice as part of an IED clearance process of interlinked activities including operational planning, survey, search and disposal in order to ‘clear’ IED contamination. It concentrates on providing good practice guidance on the latter two of these activities: IED search and IED disposal. ׁ DISCLAIMER. This publication makes reference to non-technical and technical survey and complements the associated IMAS for these activities. It DOES NOT contain technical guidance on the use of demining machines or animal detection systems as part of an IED clearance process, or provide explicit detail on MA ‘systems’ to release IED contaminated areas. The user should therefore refer to IMAS 07.11 Land Release and the complementary GICHD urban approach model.
ׁ WARNING. This guide is NOT intended for use outside of a humanitarian mine action context.
Image 2. Mine action IEDD operator checking both ends of a tripwire
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