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Un-Exploded Ordinance Removal isn't All We Do |
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Strategic Systems Group offers high-quality, responsive technical support tailored to meet the specific needs of customers ranging from the U.S. Department of Defense, to NASA, to commercial enterprises. The goal: Customized around-the-clock outsourcing services that reduce customer workforce costs and enhance efficiency.  All Strategic Systems Group's UXO (Unexploded Ordinance) employees are former military bomb disposal operators, experienced in US and overseas UXO clearance tasks. We ensure that the appropriate personnel who provide our Client's with UXO support have the training, qualifications and experience that allow them to effectively manage UXO disposal tasks safely. Many of our employees currently hold, or are working towards, an NVQ in Munition Clearance & Search Occupations (MCSO) for the appropriate level at which they are working – Strategic Systems Group is the only EOD Organisation to benchmark its employees in this way.
On finding UXO on a site Strategic Systems Group will implement the initial cordon & evacuation to ensure the immediate safety of personnel. Should the emergency services be required, Strategic Systems Group will manage the interface between the Client and these agencies to minimise the impact to the project and the Client's staff, ensuring that work can resume on site as soon as it is safe to do so.
In response to construction industry demands for a more rigorous approach to unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk assessment, Strategic Systems Group has developed a methodology to ascribe a focussed UXO-related risk level for a particular site. |
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Marking first ever mine action day, UN calls for ban and clean-up funds |
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From the front line of the battle against the deadly legacy of landmines in Iraq and Sudan to command offices throughout the world, the United Nations today marked the first International Day dedicated to curbing the scourge with calls for a universal ban and pleas for greater donor support in cleaning up these remnants of war.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) noted that from 3,000 to 4,000 children alone are killed or wounded by mines every year, with the countries most affected including Angola, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Decades after conflicts have receded, these invisible killers lie silently in the ground, waiting to murder and maim. Through them, 20th century battles claim 21st century victims, with new casualties added every hour,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message on International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. “The goal of a world without landmines and explosive remnants of war appears achievable in years, not decades as we used to think,” he added, stressing the vital importance of the 1997 treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, which has 150 State Parties.
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