Equipment Decontamination Site NRW

The document presents the Equipment Decontamination Concept (G-Dekon NRW) for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, addressing large-scale contamination of vehicles, equipment, and personnel in CBRN/ABC incidents. It identifies potential causes such as industrial or transport accidents, natural disasters, radiological incidents, and deliberate attacks like “dirty bombs.”

The concept ensures that contaminated vehicles and equipment are decontaminated before leaving the hazard area to prevent secondary contamination, with a planned capacity of decontaminating at least one full fire service unit (four vehicles) per hour. G-Dekon NRW complements existing regional and state-level emergency response plans and works in parallel with Personal Decontamination (P-Dekon NRW), while smaller items can be decontaminated using mobile hazard material vehicles (GW-G). Large-scale surface decontamination is outside the scope of this plan.