Address: Metcalfe House, Delhi 110 054, India

Telephone: Unlisted

Fax: Unlisted

Telex: Unlisted

E-mail: root@drcees.drdo.com

Director: Dr. Sudershan Kumar Salwan

Subordinate to: Defense Research & Development Organization, Ministry of Defense

Primary Function: Provides safety guidance to all Ministry of Defense establishments on manufacturing, handling, transportation, storage, and disposal of hazardous material.

Description: The Centre for Environment & Explosive Safety (CEES) was created in 1992 by merging the defense ministry's Directorate of Explosives Safety and Fire Advisor's Office. The CEES provides "integrated advice" to the Ministry of Defense on the "environment, explosives, and fire safety" in all matters relating to handling "explosives, ammunition, and other hazardous material."

Activities: The CEES provides "guidance to all [defense ministry] establishments on "manufacturing, handling, transportation, storage, and disposal of hazardous material." This laboratory approves and reviews "fire safety aspects of plans for siting and construction of new facilities and modifications/alterations to existing facilities." In addition, it undertakes to enforce the compliance of "statutory rules, and safety standards" in all defense ministry entities. The CEES's functions include:

Explosive Safety:

• Design of blast-resistant structures.
• Development of guidelines to predict "non-propagation of explosions from one cluster of ammunition to adjacent clusters."
• Creation of "three-tier safety surveillance system for the enforcement of mandatory...safety requirements and regulations."

Environmental Safety:

• Establishment of a well-equipped laboratory for "trace determination of environmental pollutants in water, soil, and air."
• Research and development in waste management to "minimize the release of hazardous pollutants from defense production units and DRDO labs, into the environment.

Strategic and Special Materials:

• Development of "strategic and special materials for defense applications."

Risk Hazard Analysis:

• Application of "risk hazard analysis and pollutant dispersion modeling" to existing and planned facilities.

Fire Safety:

• Consultancy on "fire protection and prevention measures" in all defense ministry establishments.

Key Sources:
Defence Research & Development Organization, "Centre for Environment & Explosives Safety," <http://www.drdo.org/labs/material/cees/index.shtml>.

	Updated July 2003