The Organisation Of Decontamination For Personal Protective Equipment Used In Incidents Involving Hazardous Materials

Contemporary civilisation is invariably accompanied by disasters, industrial accidents, infectious
diseases and increasingly frequent terrorist attacks. Despite the use of ever more sophisticated
safeguards accompanying the development of civilisation and modern branches of the economy,
these phenomena will inevitably keep occurring. The possibility of sudden unforeseen incidents
caused by the impact of chemical, biological, or radiological factors requires constant readiness of
units of the State Fire Service. The work analyses the decontamination process used in Germany,
North America and Poland. This enabled the development of proposals for organising the
decontamination process applied to personal protective equipment, constituting a combination
of selected solutions, which allows for the implementation of systemic changes in the State Fire
Service.