ABSTRACT
Chemicals pose a great risk to many organizations and a challenge to security managers. The concern of this chapter is not just with organizations that produce or store large chemical stockpiles, but also those facilities that use chemicals that are secondary to their primary mission. The focus of this chapter is going to be on the impact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has had on the regulation and security required by those organizations that use and store chemical inventories. This chapter relies heavily on DHS documents to try and simplify the chemical regulation process and the subsequent role for security management. DHS provided its Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Standards as a framework for securing chemicals from the possibility of harm or theft by terrorist groups. DHS has the authority to regulate chemical facilities that present high levels of security risk.
