Personal Decontamination
PERSONAL - Personal decontamination generally refers to a person's skin and clothing. Tear gas is nothing more than a solid chemical or particle that becomes airborne and lands on a person's skin and is breathed into their respiratory system.
Decontamination procedures are based on this principal. Once we remove all the particles of chemical the physiological effects of the tear gas should cease. In most cases the psychological effects will cease with the physiological effects.
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