A booster or cartridge carrying a detonator or coupled to a detonating cord by which the remainder of the charge is detonated

Primer made up using cast booster

Primer using small diameter packaged explosives

A primed hole - the first primer is loaded, the second is still at the collar.

A building on premises licensed for the manufacture or storage of explosives, other than for immediate use, in which any explosive is manufactured or any ingredient of explosive is used in a manufacturing process.

Benefits of process mapping

Process mapping spotlights waste, streamlines work processes and builds understanding. Process mapping allows you to visually communicate the important details of a process rather than writing extensive directions.

Specific benefits include:

• Enables understanding of the process. Without understanding attempts at improvement will have random outcomes.

• Complexity of processes and lack of understanding constrains management’s attempts to improve processes

• Analytical skills and process mapping skills allow us to understand and communicate processes to management, staff and users

• Identification of efficiency issues and where systems can support these.

• Enables concise and consistent documentation to be developed. Includes procedures, work instructions, standards and training systems.

A process step in a process generally refers to a change or transition.

Process steps are triggered by an input and deliver an output different to the input (the transition). Often there is a feedback loop to trigger the process again if the output does not meet a specific standard.

Class A: Public street, road or thoroughfare, railway, navigable waterway, dock, wharf, pier or jetty, marketplace, public recreation and sports ground or other open place where the public is accustomed to assemble, open place of work in another occupancy, river-wall, seawall, reservoir, water main (above ground), radio or television transmitter, main electrical substation, private road which is the principal means of access to a church, chapel, college, school, hospital or factory.

Class B: Dwelling house, public building, church, chapel, college, school, hospital, theatre, cinema or other building or structure where the public is accustomed to assemble, shop, factory, warehouse, store, building in which any person is employed in any trade or business, depot for the keeping of flammable or dangerous goods, major dam.

An ANE pump incident which involves sufficient overheating to be observed by pump operators (e.g. very hot pump body, visible smoke), or which causes the operation of a temperature protective element (temperature trip or thermofuse).

A substance or mixture of substances which will burn without relying on oxygen from external sources to sustain the reaction. Used as detonator delay train compounds.

Austin Powder make Shock*Star Quick-Relay Connectors that are designed for the initiation of other shock tube detonators as a delay between holes or decks within a hole.

RDX also known as cyclonite or hexogen has a chemical name cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a military explosive used as the coreload as high temperature detonating cords and substituted for PETN in some boosters.

RDX has a velocity of detonation of over 8500 meters per second.

RDX is less sensitive to temperature effects than PETN and slightly less impact sensitive.

RDX stands for Research Department eXplosive or Royal Demolition eXplosives (no-one really knows..)

When mixed with an inert binder RDX is the basis of a number of other military based explosives:

• RDX + Wax = Composition A
• RDX + TNT = Composition B
• RDX + Plasticiser = Composition C