Minimum contents of the professional modules for prior training exclusive to Explosives Guards

Resolution of November 12, 2012, from the State Secretariat for Security, determining the training programs for private security personnel.
Published in: Official State Gazette, No. 296 of December 10, 2012, pages 84621 to 84645 (25 pages).
Section: I. General provisions
Department: Ministry of the Interior
Reference: BOE-A-2012-14947

Appendix 2

Minimum contents of the professional modules of prior training exclusively for Explosives Guards

Legal Module:

Topic 1. Special Administrative Law. The Explosives Guard: Nature. Requirements for obtaining accreditation: Functions to be performed.

Topic 2. Explosives Regulation: Articles that particularly affect it. Royal Decree 563/2010, approving the Regulation of pyrotechnic articles and cartridges: Articles that particularly affect it. Mining Law and Regulation. National Regulation on the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail, and Air: Articles that particularly affect it.

Topic 3. Special Criminal Law. The offense of illegal possession of explosives.

Technical Module:

Topic 1. Armament. Regulatory weapons for use by Explosives Guards. Study of regulatory weapons. Ammunition and cartridges. Conservation and cleaning.

Topic 2. Shooting theory. Internal ballistics. External ballistics. Effects ballistics.

Topic 3. Safety regulations in handling weapons. General and specific.

Topic 4. Instructional shooting. Practices with live fire with regulatory weapons, both with handguns and long guns used in transport custody.

Topic 5. Explosives. Nature. Characteristics. Classification. Industrial explosives.

Topic 6. Initiators. Nature and classification. Effects of explosions. Destruction of explosives.

Topic 7. Cartridges and pyrotechnics. Characteristics. Classification.

Topic 8. Safety measures to be adopted in the handling and custody of explosives, cartridges, and pyrotechnic material. Special deposits and storage.

Topic 9. Safety measures to be adopted in transportation for different means, loading and unloading of explosives, cartridges, and pyrotechnic material.