Image 5. Industrial areas offer complex task scenarios
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
This is a wide-ranging topic and requires MA staff to have specific knowledge, skills and attitudes to be able to carry out community engagement effectively. Often, risk-taking groups are difficult to engage with, and MA staff need to actively seek their participation to gain the best evidence relating to IED contamination. An urban community will also take different risks from those of rural communities and this should be understood by MA staff. There may also be highly hierarchically structured societies which MA staff will need to be sensitive to in order to gain access to certain community members.
NON-TECHNICAL SURVEY (NTS)
As with all MA survey and clearance activities, good NTS is the first activity that provides tangible evidence, helping to ensure that IED contaminated spaces are released back to the community not just effectively but also efficiently.
The purpose of NTS is to:
• Confirm whether or not there is evidence of a hazard;
• Identify the type and extent of any hazard within the area;
• Define, as far as possible, the perimeter of the actual hazardous areas, without physical intervention or use of clearance assets.
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