1. Joint Hazard Assessment Teams
54th CST
WI National Guard

2. JOINT HAZARD ASSESSMENT TEAM (JHAT)
JHAT Purpose: provide sweeps and monitoring for hazards at events
US Secret Service has been conducting sweeps and monitoring at VIP events for decades
Over the last 10 years JHATS have developed to include several other specialized agencies

3. Historical examples of JHAT employment
2004 & 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions
Sweeps of venues and routes
WMD/HAZMAT responders
2013 Boston Marathon
Civil Support Teams on-sight
Presence of the JHATs allowed for effective response to the attack.

4. Historical examples of JHAT employment
2002 MLB All Star Game, Miller Park
Harley Davidson 105th & 110th Anniversary
EAA Oshkosh
PGA Championships 2010 & 2015
National Guard Ass. Conference 2011
2008/2012/2016 Presidential election cycle

5. Case Studies 2008 Republican National Convention
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama visits
2011 MLB Playoffs
135 CST JHATS since FY14

6. Who Requests a JHAT Things to Consider Assess Risk Event Levels
Why JHAT?
Who Requests a JHAT
Things to Consider
Assess Risk
Event Levels

7. Who requests a JHAT? Emergency Managers Law Enforcement Bomb Squads
Hazmat Teams
Event Coordinators

8. Things to Consider Number of Attendees VIPs Media Coverage
Symbolic or Cultural Significance / Politics
Soft vs. Hard Target
Goals
Long Term Effects

9. Assess Risk

10. Why establish a JHAT? Different agencies = different capabilities
Coordinated sweeps
Funding & personnel considerations
Direct liaison/advanced party on site

11. What are the event risk levels?
Special Event Readiness Levels (SERLs)
National Special Security Events
US Secret Service
FBI
FEMA

12. Determining Tactics for JHAT & Pre-Event Sweeps
Venue type
Number of People Attending
Agency Coverage
VIPs
Event Type

13. Venue Type Indoor vs. Outdoor Size Securable Attendee Flow Inside
Things to consider for inside event Bio, Chem and Rad explosives
Outside event
Rad explosives

14. Number Attending Ten of thousands of people attending
Millions attending
How many people and agency's will show up to event.

15. Agency Coverage
State Local Or Federal

16. VIPs

17. Type of Event & Visibility

18. Radiation
Identifinder- lanthanum bromide crystal/ sodium iodide crystals/GM Tube/ 3HE
Rad Eye-
Polimaster- GM Tube/ CsI(Tl) Thallium activated Cesium Iodide

19. Environmental Monitoring
AREA RAE sensors gamma sensor
Rae Plus sensors
RAE PRO sensor slots but some sensors can two ex. CO H2S

20. During Event Monitoring, Alarm Adjudication & Reach back
Radiation Monitoring
Air Monitoring
Biological Monitoring
Explosives

21. Radiation Monitoring

22. Air Monitoring

23. Biological

24. Explosive Amplifying Fluorescent polymer
Glowes under UV light- No explosive present
Quenches light or goes dim- Explosive in contact
Detects- Nitrates, Nitro, Peroxide, Military
Two methods sniff and swipe

25. Adjudication AHURA/ RMX- Ramen technology FTI HAZ360- FTRI
Ortec- High purity germanium crystal
Hapsite- portable GCMS

26. Reachback
Triage or Joint Center Collaborative Information Systems (JACCIS)
State Laboratory of Hygiene
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Civil Support Teams (CSTs)