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- Reviews fuze, safety and arming system design features, including hardware and software, to ensure that fuzing systems developed, procured, manufactured or fielded by the Army provide for optimum safety during the lifecycle including manufacture, transportation, storage, handling, user assembly and preparation, use in training and combat and disposal. The scope of reviews will include, but will not be limited to, qualification, development, and operational test results; hazard analyses and system safety risk assessments, and manufacturing and inspection processes. The reviews shall ensure that properly tested render safe and disposal procedures have been developed and are in place.
- Ensures that modified fuze designs and new applications of existing fuzes, including those developed by other services and foreign sources, and non-developmental items are evaluated against applicable Army safety criteria prior to release for Army use. Ensures that properly tested render safe and disposal procedures are in place for the modification or application.
- Conducts progressive reviews that provide identification of design and testing issues.
- Upon determining that a fuze design has sufficiently met the intent of applicable safety requirements, issues an AFSRB safety certification to that effect. The safety certification shall clearly specify the item’s configuration and its intended application(s), subject to all documented procedures, control measures, and limitations presented by the cognizant government program, project or product manager (proponent). When warranted by available information, the AFSRB may issue an initial or interim safety certification or a letter of support, pending its receipt of final documentation from the proponent, or pending the proponent’s completion of specified tasks. The AFSRB may withdraw an initial, interim or final safety certification or letter of support at any time based on discovery of adverse information, including pertinent malfunction or accident experience.
- Prepares or reviews proposed changes to fuze safety design, evaluation and testing criteria documents. Develops and publishes other guidance documents as required to inform Army fuze system proponents of safety criteria and/or procedures required for AFSRB review and certification.
- Serves as the Army technical authority regarding fuzing systems safety design and testing criteria, including applicable MIL-STDs and NATO STANAGs/AOPs.
- Makes technical decisions and evaluations regarding fuze designs to include determination of the relative safety of a fuzing system that does not wholly comply with applicable MIL-STDs and NATO STANAGs/AOPs.
- Refers all matters requiring hazard risk acceptance documentation (i.e., acknowledgement of risks) regarding any fuzing system to the proper authority for appropriate action.
Contact the Army Fuze Safety Review Board at: usarmy.pica.devcom-ac.mbx.afsrb@army.mil