Explosives Expert

If you handle explosives, propellants, or pyrotechnics through your company, you understand how important safety procedures are. Bob Morhard and his team at ExploConsult are an explosives safety expert group that can help you improve and implement better safety practices.

If you want to make sure you are always on the cutting edge of safety, give us a call at +16103064637.

Explosives Expert

Safety comes in many forms and is necessary when developing new explosives manufacturing, handling, and application procedures. No matter if your company is new or has been around a while, we can help you develop a comprehensive operating plan with internal and external emergency action plans that can majorly reduce your risk of an accident.

Every company can find some ways to improve their safety techniques. When you work with us we look at every aspect of your processes to determine areas for improvement. Then we help you implement those changes to enhance overall safety.

Our experts perform safety audits to check on your policies, processes, machinery, and practices to ensure that everything is safety-focused and doesn’t need to be updated.

However, an Explosives safety plan is only as good as those who enforce it. That is exactly why we also offer comprehensive training to employers and employees alike. This training ensures that everyone understands the importance of safety and how to carry out the best safety techniques.

Our Experts

The founder of ExploConsult, Bob Morhard, is an explosives safety expert and has been recognized in the USA as a ‘Special Expert’ for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) where he has served on the Technical Committee for Explosives Materials Code (NFPA 495) for more than 20 years. 

We have over 49 years of experience and a Zero Explosives Accidents record with the nearly 42 million metric tons of explosives and propellants produced on the equipment we designed, installed, or inspected. Let an explosives expert from ExploConsult help you today — message us on our contact page to get started on your training.

Minimize Net Explosives Weight

The quantities of explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics and raw materials (including packaging) must always be kept as low as practical and appropriately separated. This includes the separation and segregation of waste.

Minimum Human Exposure

Whenever possible, use non-human attended or remote process equipment.  There should be as few people as practical involved in the process.  This includes barricades and suppressive shields.  One often overlooked aspect is to have strict policies in place to restrict any non-process related people such as support staff, office staff and visitors.

Minimum Operations

Ideally there should either be only one operation per building or at least only one operation at any given time per building.

Minimize Risk

Risk Identification and Risk Assessment programs that involve process hazard analysis (PHA), hazards analysis and operability studies (HAZOP) and quantitative risk assessment (QRA) are required by law for manufacturing explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics.

Explosives Safety Means No Harm to Anyone Ever.

Zero Explosives Accidents Over 48 Years

We have over 49 years of experience and a Zero Explosives Accidents record with the nearly 42 million metric tons of explosives and propellants produced on equipment we designed, installed, or inspected. You can trust our expertise to keep your company safe while using or handling explosives. Let an explosives expert from ExploConsult help you today.

Call us at +16103064637 today.

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Professional Record

  • United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
  • Designated as a ‘Special Expert’ status by the USA National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) serving on the Technical Committee for Explosives Materials Code (NFPA 495) and Safe Havens for Vehicles Containing Explosives (NFPA 498) from 2000 to present date.
  • Extensive regulatory interface involving explosives materials in United Kingdom, Ireland, China, Europe, USA, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Korea, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Finland, Guyana, South Africa, Israel, Indonesia, Suriname, Lithuania, Dubai, Philippines, Vietnam, Brazil, Panama, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, India, and New Zealand.
  • Provided subject matter expertise on explosives to the US Congress, US Department of Defense, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, US agencies including the FBI, ATF, EPA, OSHA, and Transportation Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security. Provided briefings and subject matter expertise on explosives to select members of the white house staff on homeland security, select members of the US Senate, and select members of the US House of Representatives.
  • Experience in more than one hundred process hazard analysis (PHA), hazards analysis and operability studies (HAZOP), quantitative risk assessment (QRA) related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics, and ordnance processing, operations, handling, use, and disposal.
  • Participated in the development and implementation of more than 70 internal plant and external plant emergency action and safety plans for explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics facilities.
  • Since 1979, participated on many technical committees within the Institute of Makers of Explosives, United Nations, SAFEX International, Mine Safety and Health Administration, and many US and global regulatory groups dealing with explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics.
  • Assessed and quantitatively analyzed fifty plus (50+) new unknown explosives substances and articles in accordance with the United Nations standards: The Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and Manual of Tests and Criteria.
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