Pre-inspection briefing (PIB)
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Upon the Inspection Team arrival at the site and before the commencement of the inspection, facility representatives are required to provide to the Inspection Team and Host Team a Pre-Inspection Briefing (PIB) on the facility, chemical activities carried out there, safety measures, and administrative and logistical arrangements necessary for the inspection. The PIB may also include maps and other documentation as deemed appropriate by the facility. The time spent for the briefing will be limited to the minimum necessary and may not exceed three hours.
The PIB must address a number of site-specific information which may impact the inspection, including general site activities, physical layout, declared plants and associated units, scheduled chemicals, process flow, and safety measures. The briefing's purpose is to provide sufficient information to the inspection team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) so it may achieve its inspection aims in the least intrusive manner possible. A thorough and accurate PIB helps ensure that company, plant site, and plant(s) information is accurately reflected in the inspection report and facilitates a more efficient inspection.
PIB requirements
The Chemical Weapons Convention Regulation require the following formation to be included in the PIB:
- plant safety and alarms
- activities, business and manufacturing operations
- physical layout
- delimitation of declared facility
- scheduled chemicals/chemistries declared and undeclared
- units specific to declared operations
- administrative and logistics information
The PIB may also address:
- introduction of key facility personnel
- management, organization and history
- confidential business information concerns
- types and location of records and documents
- data declaration updates and/or revisions