Ammunition and explosives Storage
Safety
Cardinal Rule - answer Minimum people, minimum time, minimum explosives
ESQD: Explosives Safety Quantity Distance - answer Provides different minimum safe
distances for buildings, roadways, and magazines.
PES - answer
IMD – answer Intermagazine Distance: applies to ECMs, AGMs, open storage sites,
classification yards, holding areas.
ILD – answer Intraline Distance: provided for operating buildings
Surveillance workshops, production buildings, inspection locations, maintenance
facilities.
PTRD - answerPublic Traffic Route Distance: all roads accessible to the public, both on
and off the installation, require this level of protection. Also applies to railroad lines for
passenger or cargo traffic, water channels capable of being used for commerce.
IBD - answerInhabited Building Distance: generally assigned to anything outside the
ammunition area(building doesn't have to be inhabited all the time).
Hazard Division 1.1 - answerExplosives
Hazard Division 1.2 - answerFragments
Hazard Division 1.3 - answerMass fire
Hazard Division 1.4 - answerModerate Fire
Always allowed inside a magazine - answerShipping, inventory, visual inspections
Operations allowed inside a magazine with conditions - answerAvailable Space,
Egress/Exit, Dunnage, trash & scrap
Operations inside a magazine allowed with conditions - answerPallet using/replacing
defective banding, removing/ replacing shipping bands on bombs, removing/replacing
grommets on separate loading projectiles
Safety
Cardinal Rule - answer Minimum people, minimum time, minimum explosives
ESQD: Explosives Safety Quantity Distance - answer Provides different minimum safe
distances for buildings, roadways, and magazines.
PES - answer
IMD – answer Intermagazine Distance: applies to ECMs, AGMs, open storage sites,
classification yards, holding areas.
ILD – answer Intraline Distance: provided for operating buildings
Surveillance workshops, production buildings, inspection locations, maintenance
facilities.
PTRD - answerPublic Traffic Route Distance: all roads accessible to the public, both on
and off the installation, require this level of protection. Also applies to railroad lines for
passenger or cargo traffic, water channels capable of being used for commerce.
IBD - answerInhabited Building Distance: generally assigned to anything outside the
ammunition area(building doesn't have to be inhabited all the time).
Hazard Division 1.1 - answerExplosives
Hazard Division 1.2 - answerFragments
Hazard Division 1.3 - answerMass fire
Hazard Division 1.4 - answerModerate Fire
Always allowed inside a magazine - answerShipping, inventory, visual inspections
Operations allowed inside a magazine with conditions - answerAvailable Space,
Egress/Exit, Dunnage, trash & scrap
Operations inside a magazine allowed with conditions - answerPallet using/replacing
defective banding, removing/ replacing shipping bands on bombs, removing/replacing
grommets on separate loading projectiles
