The Department of Physics, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Science at the University of Baghdad, organized a lecture entitled “Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Threats (CBRN)” under the auspices of the Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Dr. Raed Faleh Hassan, and the presence of a number of students, lecturers and specialists in biological and chemical affairs and laboratory safety management.
The lecture aimed to discuss the abbreviation CBRN, which refers to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear substances and agents that may harm society by accidentally or deliberately launching, spreading, or colliding. At present, many of these factors are subject to innovative practices in medicine, agriculture, and industry, and are used for the benefit of human health, the environment, and the global economy.
The lecture included the promotion of a culture of security around the world and the development of effective capabilities for prevention that would reduce the risk of natural, accidental, and deliberate accidents resulting from the potential use of these factors on the entire community, especially in the work of educational laboratories that in the event of insufficient control of chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological materials can pose serious threats to work in laboratories and be dangerous to security, human health, economic development, and the environment, indicating that some of these accidents have led to the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-increased need for more safety efforts to investigate such risks.
This lecture achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the third, seventh, and fifteenth goals, which call for ensuring a healthy life and promoting well-being for all at all ages, as well as clean and affordable energy and life on earth.