ChemLock
More than 96% of all manufactured goods depend on chemicals in some way. These chemicals are used, manufactured, stored, and transported across global supply chains, forming the bedrock of industries that touch nearly every aspect of American life—from microchips to food processing. In the wrong hands, many of the chemicals that businesses interact with every day could be used as weapons.
Whether you work for a small business or an international company, everyone who interacts with these types of chemicals has a role to play in understanding the risk and taking collective action to prevent chemicals from being weaponized by terrorists. CISA's ChemLock program is a completely voluntary program that provides facilities that possess dangerous chemicals with no-cost services and tools to help you better understand the risks you face and improve your chemical security posture in a way that works for your business model.
ChemLock Services and Tools
CISA is a recognized international leader in chemical security with more than a decade of experience assisting facilities in building tailored security plans to prevent terrorist exploitation of their chemicals. From on-site consultations to chemical security publications, the CISA ChemLock program offers scalable, tailored options for facilities looking to enhance their chemical security posture.
ChemLock On-Site Assessments and Assistance
CISA's ChemLock program provides on-site assistance and assessments that can help your facility identify the security risks your on-site chemicals present and offer tailored, scalable suggestions for security measures that work best for you.
ChemLock Resources
ChemLock resources are no-cost, publicly available guidance documents, templates, fact sheets, and flyers to help you enhance the cyber and physical security surrounding your chemicals.
ChemLock Exercises
ChemLock Exercises can help facilities test a security plan by either facilitating a live tailored tabletop exercise or providing CISA Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEPs) that facilities can download and use as needed.
ChemLock Training
CISA offers live, on-demand training to assist owners, operators, and facility personnel with understanding the threats that chemicals pose and what security measures can be put into place to reduce the risk of dangerous chemicals being weaponized.
ChemLock: Special Access to Other CISA Services
In addition to the ChemLock services and tools that CISA provides specific to chemical security, CISA offers a variety of other resources and tools that facilities with dangerous chemicals may also find useful.
ChemLock Services
To request any of CISA ChemLock's no-cost services and tools, please fill out the ChemLock Services Request Form.
Why Chemical Security?
Chemical Threat and Risk
Facilities with dangerous chemicals have long been attractive targets for terrorists around the world. Learn more about the threat and risk that dangerous chemicals present.
ChemLock Security Goals
CISA encourages facilities to develop a holistic security plan around five chemical security goals. Learn more about those chemical security goals.
ChemLock Security Plan
How do you develop a holistic, comprehensive chemical security plan? The ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals guidance document and template lays out how you can develop a facility security plan tailored to your facility.
ChemLock Contact Information
For more information or questions, please email ChemLock@cisa.dhs.gov.
To request any of CISA ChemLock's no-cost services and tools, please fill out the ChemLock Services Request Form.
Note: Participation in any portion of CISA's ChemLock program does not replace any reporting or compliance requirements under CISA's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulation (6 CFR part 27). Some ChemLock activities may fulfill CFATS requirements, depending on your specific security plan. Contact local CISA Chemical Security personnel or visit the CFATS webpage to learn more about CFATS regulatory requirements.