Range Safety Officers and instructors can accumulate thousands of blast overpressure exposures during weapons training. Learn why cadre carry the highest “dose,” what DoD policy now requires, and how engineering controls like EBSS reduce exposure without reducing readiness.

Blast overpressure (BOP) has moved from “emerging concern” to formal DoD requirements and active congressional oversight. Here’s what the policy actually says, what accountability looks like, and how range-ready engineering controls like EBSS help units comply without sacrificing readiness.

EBSS exists to transform DoD policy into a practical range-ready mitigation—so training can stay hard, realistic, and repeatable, without silently compounding a preventable brain-health risk.