Performance Potentials of Civil Protection Contact

In response to new threats such as 11 September 2001 and the BBK Department III, Research and
flood catastrophe of 2002, the Federal Office of Civil Protection Technology; Public Health Protection
and Disaster Assistance (BBK) was established on 1 May, 2004. Section III.2,
With this Office, the Federal Republic of Germany has a central Technical CBRN protection
organisation element for civil safety. Email: BBK-Abteilung-III@bbk.bund.de
The interdisciplinary approach of this office includes all services of Section III.6,
civil safety prevention and links them up to an efficient protection Economic issues of civil protection;
system for the population and its basic survival needs. equipment and procurement
Therefore the BBK is not only a technical authority of the Federal Email: BBK-Abteilung-III@bbk.bund.de
Ministry of the Interior (BMI) but also gives competent advice and
support to the other Federal and Land authorities to help them
with the completion of their tasks.
Hence there is now one central authority
For more information please contact:
• To fulfil the tasks of the Federal government with regard to civil
protection and the co-ordination of international co-operation Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz
und Katastrophenhilfe (BBK)
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and emergency planning as well as to co-ordinate civil-military- 53127 Bonn
police co-operation
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• To provide conceptual planning and interdisciplinary co-ordina- 53008 Bonn
tion of the protection of critical infrastructures
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management in case of damage Email: poststelle@bbk.bund.de
• To co-ordinate technical-scientific research relating to civil
protection as well as to the protection of the population against
weapons of mass destruction
• To ensure threat-adequate civil protection training of executives
at high and highest administrative levels © BBK 2009
• To provide national co-ordination of the European integration
process in the field of civil safety prevention
• To provide disaster medicine
• To procure equipment for civil protection.

As part of the supplementary disaster management equipment,

procured by the Federal Government, in the following the current Personal CBRN
personal CBRN protective equipment is described in more detail.
IMPORTANT: This flyer does not replace the detailed information
Protective Equipment of
provided by manufacturers and suppliers, enclosed with the
equipment.
the Federal Government

Performance Potentials of Civil Protection

The CBRN Personal Protective Equipment Liquidproof Protective Clothing Carrier Bag
• Protective clothing according to type 3 • For the transport of protective
The CBRN personal protective equipment corresponds to today’s respiratory mask, filters and
state of the art technology and protects its wearer against hazards • Protection against contamination
caused by CBRN hazardous substances self-aid kit
caused by radioactive, biological and chemical contamination.
(liquids and particles) • Corresponds to specifications
The Federal Government provides to the Laender about 50,000 of German Army
kits of the CBRN Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). • Can be worn separately or over the
overgarment • Thanks to age resistant materi-
One set of the PPE consists of the following items: al almost unlimited storage
• Laminate of various plastic layers
• Overgarment for protection against agent vapours and aerosols > thus wide range protection, com- capacity
• Liquidproof protective clothing parable to a chemical protection suit
• Protective respiratory mask and filter (2 filters per set) • Particularly wide cut for additional
comfort Protective Gloves
• Chemical protective gloves
• Liner gloves • Manufactured from butyl
rubber with corresponding
• Protective Footwear
corresponding retention
• Socks spectrum
Respiratory Mask
• Carrier bag for protective respiratory mask and filter
• Facepiece corresponds to
A modern self-aid kit is planned for a future procurement.
standard pressure version
• NBR natural rubber compound
• Good view thanks to single Protective Footwear
viewing glass • Corresponding to type S 5
The Items in Detail • Manufactured on the basis
of butyl rubber
Overgarment
• Oil resistant sole
• Protection against vapours and tiny
• Antistatic
drops of chemical agents (aerosols).
No protection against liquids
• Multi-layer fabric: Liquid resistant upper Filter
layer, adsorbing filter layer Liner Gloves
• ABEK2 Hg P3 filter
• Adsorbing effect of the filter layer is • For comfortable and safe use of the protective gloves
• Protection against: Organic
caused by activated carbon spherical > better grip, sweat absorption
gases and vapours with boiling
adsorbers
point > 65°C; inorganic gases • Pure cotton material, washable
• has got a CE label. and vapours (e.g. chlorine,
hydrogen sulphide, hydrocyanic
acid, excluding carbon monox-
ide), sulphur dioxide, other acid Functional Socks
gases and vapours, ammonia • For comfortable and safe
and organic ammonia deriva- use of protective footwear
tives > better fit
• Medium adsorption capacity • Breathable climatic fibre
• Separation of mercury > moisture transport
• Particle filter with high separation capacity