The Surety Program
The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant’s (PCAPP) mission was to safely destroy the chemical weapons stockpile stored at the U.S. Army Chemical Depot. The Surety Program helped ensure PCAPP employees were reliable, effective and competent to perform the important mission of chemical weapons destruction. Chemical surety activities included:
- Procedures to assess the reliability of employees.
- Overall procedural compliance.
- Physical security measures to prevent unauthorized access or use of chemical agents.
- Safe and secure acquisition, storage, handling, maintenance, transportation, inventory management and disposal of chemical surety material.
- Assessment of organizations and activities that possess, use or transfer chemical surety material.
In addition, PCAPP employees were trained in hazardous materials, decontamination, rope rescue and more. In case agent-related incidents occur, the Employee Response Team was the first to respond to mitigate situations.
Personnel Reliability Program
The U.S. Army and the Bechtel Pueblo Team used the utmost caution and diligence when handling chemical weapons, with the safety of employees, the public and the environment being the highest priority. A large part of this commitment to safety and security was the Army’s Personnel Reliability Program (PRP). The purpose of this program was to ensure all employees performing duties directly involving chemical agents met and maintained the highest possible standards of reliability.