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Task no.007 started by [National demining agency] Sur.T-10 on 24-Sep-06 and it is ongoing (92%) but unfortunately on 12-11-2006 at 11:00am demining accident happened on [Victim No.1] Surveyor of [National demining agency] Sur. Team no. 10, while he was busy on excavation in the boundary lane. Generally Land type of the contaminated area is Grazing in accordance with the LIS information the mentioned community is accounted as high impact, including three suspected hazard areas (SHAs). This is a self Propelled (weedy) land for a kind of Vegetable using for medicine that is exported from Afghanistan to India . which is accounted as a main income beneficiary for the inhabitants housed around. The MF location is 40-50 Minutes foot distance far from the community top of the hills. Based on the LISA information, the land has contaminated by AP, PMN and POMZ type mines during 1983-1986 by Russian and their Mercenary government, using [mines] as defence tools for protection of their Posts that are placed for the Security of Kabul —Mazar highway. This contamination has caused for 40 mine victims, resulted 17 killed and 23 injured, in addition of one Demining accident that occurred on [Another national demining group] deminer in the boundary lane of task no.001 on Tuesday 10th May 2005 in SHA 01. Initially the task no.007 is a portion area of SHA-01 which has share boundary lane with Cleared task no.001.

During demining operations, a mine was involuntarily detonated in a mine line in the vicinity of Alpha 4 and Alpha 6 at approximately 7.28am. One deminer was involved and sustained injuries: the deminer was immediately taken to Camp Lacey US military hospital.

The accident occurred in a mined area that had been worked on at the provincial government request since January 10th 2000. The method used was conventional manual demining. At 06:51 "while working in a dense vegetation area, the deminer used a machete to cut some branches "… He dragged the cut branches out and heard a "strange click". He ran about "15 metres into a cleared area and took cover a few seconds before the F1-grenade exploded".

The investigators visited the site on 9/10th July. They found that the accident occurred in a minefield laid by government troops in 1991/2. The mines were irregularly spaced in 3km long lanes. PPM-2 and POMZ-2 mines were found (largely) in different parts of the field. There was "scrub" about a metre high where the accident occurred and the ground was "hard clay with some organic mix" which allowed the use of detectors. Two parallel lines of PPM-2 mines had been found with an "exploratory base line". Further lanes were being cut to confirm the direction of the mine-lines. The accident occurred in a lane that was beside another in which the location of found mines had been marked with sticks after their removal. On the other side of the accident lane, mines

The team were finishing their shift for the day and the victim was asked to mark the edge of the area that had been surveyed that day. As he walked to that point he trod on an undetected PMA-3. The victim was later told that the mine had been laid too deep for the detectors to locate. The victim was wearing military boots, leggings, a frag-jacket, and a helmet & visor.

The minefield consisted of a pattern of Ploughshare fragmentation mines surrounded by three anti-personnel mines. The victim was a sapper, tasked with locating and replacing mines that had been detonated by animals etc. He was using a prodder (approximately 50cm long) to find safe places to stand. His colleagues were about 10m behind him. Having prodded in one particular area, he placed his foot there and stepped on a mine. The victim believed that rainwater had caused the mine to move from its place in the pattern, and that he missed it whilst prodding. No detectors were available at that time. He was wearing only military dress with no protective clothing or glasses. He did not see his prodder again and so could not comment on how it was damaged.

Delivery of assistance to the poor in the United States has changed drastically in the past 25 years. Although the availability of cash assistance has narrowed, the availability of food assistance has broadened. The most substantial change in assistance available to the poor has been the emergence of food pantries as a source of free food to prepare at home, which happened almost concurrent to changes in the operation of the Food Stamp Program. The authors argue that the cessation of the Food Stamp Program's buy-in requirement contributed to a chronic demand for private food assistance and that, in many respects, private food assistance substitutes for an inadequate public food safety net. The authors conclude with recommendations for strengthening the domestic food safety net.

AbstractEvery year, incident management teams (IMTs) coordinate the response to hundreds of emergency events across Australasia. Larger scale emergencies such as a storms, floods, wildfires, oil spills and chemical explosions can place a lot of pressure on an IMT. Non‐technical skills play a central role in the performance of these teams. This article reviewed the broader non‐technical skills (NTS) literature before focusing on the NTS required for emergency management. It was found that most NTS frameworks share four to five common skill categories, although there were greater differences at the element and behavioural marker level. A variety of issues were identified in the literature that highlight that emergency management is very different from other domains where NTS systems have been developed. The literature on NTS in conjunction with this set of issues was used to develop a proposed NTS framework for emergency IMTs. This framework comprises 7 skill categories (i.e. communication, coordination, cooperation, decision‐making, situation awareness, leadership and coping, stress and fatigue management). The 7 skills can be further delineated into 16 elements and 44 behavioural markers. The framework provides a prototype that can form the basis for further research in this area.

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