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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bomb disposal
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A bomb disposal team made the grenade safe.
▪ Approval will also be given to supply bomb disposal equipment and goods for civilian end-users.
▪ It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House.
▪ One of the devices went off before bomb disposal squads arrived.
▪ The bomb disposal unit destroyed the bomb with a controlled explosion.
▪ The army's bomb disposal experts say the lesson is simple ... report anything suspicious, especially in the run up to Christmas.
▪ The device went off at 12.30am as bomb disposal men were about to carry out a remote-controlled explosion with a robot.
▪ The most advanced bomb disposal centre in the world has been officially opened by the Duke of Kent.
Wikipedia
Bomb disposal

Bomb disposal is the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. Bomb disposal is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the military fields of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD), and the public safety roles of 'Public Safety Bomb Disposal (PSBD') and the Bomb Squad.

"Bomb disposal" does not encompass the remediation of soils polluted with explosive materials.

Usage examples of "bomb disposal".

He remembered halfway through he looked up and saw a couple of bomb disposal officers pointing in his direction and wondered what that was about.

He'd have recognized that smell anywhere-though not from his bomb disposal training.

It's their Bomb Disposal Unit, is what it is, and it is what they would use if, if, the report that we gave you just a few minutes ago is correct, that a second explosive device of some kind is inside the building.

Get bomb disposal and a tac unit moving to the King Jason Hotel, southeast corner of Government Square.

Her on her way to a UXB call-out an' all, did it not occur to ye that it's a statutory offense to obstruct a bomb disposal officer in the course of her duties?

All I'm saying is the public perception's going to be that your Administration sent those bomb disposal experts in knowing the bombs would go off-and kill them-if you did.

One of those fellows out there should be the bomb disposal tech I requested.