Education & Training

FBI Cincinnati Division in coordination with Butler County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad, is holding a Chemical Industry Outreach Workshop (CIOW). Who Should Attend: The focus of this CIOW is to conduct and develop liaisons with chemical industry safety/security professionals, chemical industry health and safety experts, other chemical industry representatives, chemical sales (industrial and retail), and academia. The CIOW is part of the FBI’s National Improvised Explosive Familiarization (NIEF) initiative designed to raise awareness of the use of common chemicals to produce improvised explosives. The classroom portion of this training will be held at Butler Tech. The main body of morning briefings will focus on FBI initiatives, capabilities/investigations and the overall chemical threat. After a networking break, FBI Special Agent Bomb Technician will provide a brief on explosives and associated Improvised Explosive Devices (IED’s). The afternoon will consist of a short field trip to the Butler County Bomb Squad explosives range for a live demonstration of various explosives and IED’s; most of which can be mixed using common household chemicals. Please RSVP by 4/21/2022.