Fire Safety Design by means of PBD. The FCC study case
The Future Circular Collider study aims at exploring and designing the required infrastructure and technology for an underground particle accelerator that would span 98km about 400m underground.
A Performance Based Design (PBD) process was launched to assist in the conceptual study phase by evaluating the foreseen safety measures...
The FIRIA (Fire-Induced Radiological Integrated Assessment) project was launched by CERN’s HSE Unit on January 2018 to address the needs of the Organization to guarantee a suitable level of safety of its research facilities with respect to life, environment and property.
The project aims to refine the methodological and physical assumptions in use at CERN though the development of a general...
Test to prove the sprinkler capacity for the ESS Building G02 (Gallery)
At Jefferson Lab high-power lasers (Class 3B and Class 4) are used in research and accelerator operations. The laser safety program provides the methods used to mitigate the hazards posed by optical lasers that operate at wavelengths between 180 nm to 1mm. Jefferson Lab has developed engineering and administrative controls, warnings devices, and documented procedures to control the hazard...
The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is the second largest accelerator at CERN, a 450 GeV proton and heavy ion machine serving the North Area experimental area and playing a key role as an injector for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). Commissioned in 1976, the SPS featured a fire safety concept dating from the 70’s, that remained unchanged until today and for which CERN management launched a...
ESS, a brand new high-energy physics facility in Europe.
Projects at CERN cover the full spectrum of the Organization’s activities, from examples of relatively simple office renovations through to complex accelerator upgrades and experimental installations. The Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Protection Unit of CERN follows the majority of these projects through its Projects and Experiment Safety Support (PESS) activity, which for...
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is a superconducting stellarator at IPP in Greifswald, which went into operation in 2015. The aim of W7-X is to demonstrate the fusion reactor relevance of the numerically optimized stellarator. It has been designed for performing high-energy plasma discharges in the range of some seconds up to 30 minutes in a steady state operation mode. The plasma is heated mostly...
CERN as an intergovernmental organisation establishes its own safety rules as required for its proper functioning. In the domain of pressure equipment, including for cryogenic service, the baseline approach within the CERN Safety Rules is full conformity with the European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), including the appropriate involvement of a notified body, together with CE...
Building 245 at CERN is foreseen that will house the new Main Power Supply of the Proton Synchroton Booster (PSB) accelerator ring, in the frame of the 2 GeV energy increase requested by the Large Hadron Collider Injectors Upgrade (LIU) program.
This building is made of two parts: converter hall (two storey steel structure) and technical building (two storey concrete structure). Different...
Every facility has them: older structures containing former world-class experiments and machines, decommissioned years ago. If it comes to a project that wants to reuse those old structures for modern research often there are a lot of changes necessary to meet the current safety standards. Especially in the last three decades lots of laws and regulations experienced massive changes to improve...
The photon-science facilities at PETRA III, the world’s largest storage ring, cover approximately one quarter of the synchrotron’s total length of 2300m in 5 different buildings. Over the years, we have planned and built several chemical laboratories to support the growing user community of about 4000 user visits per year. Today, we operate a total of 7 chemistry laboratories for external and...
To ensure the safety of workers during disasters is a common issue. In a construction site such as a tunnel, since it is a space where positioning by GPS (Global Positioning System) is difficult, it is realized to install a unique positioning system and instruct workers to move away. In order to divert it to an accelerator tunnel, the problem of radiation resistance has to be solved. We...
The RIKEN Nishina Center operate an accelerator facility of Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) which provide high-intense heavy ion beams from hydrogen to uranium using five cyclotrons. The main subject is nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear chemistry, biology, RI production to other facility, and etc.
Recently, some experiments using unsealed RI produced at the accelerators...
This presentation will provide an overview of the incident management system at ESS and share lessons learned from some incidents during commissioning involving oxygen deficiency hazards
A serious injury during machining work occurred at J-PARC in August 2018. A contractor worker was manufacturing experimental parts for magnetic field measurements using a milling machine. When the worker was brushing off the machining dust by hand with wearing gloves, a finger of his right hand was caught in the rotating mill and got serious injury. Taking the accident, the J-PARC Center set...
Health & Safety Group, ALBA Synchrotron facility, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
ALBA is the Spanish synchrotron facility formed with a 3GeV electron synchrotron accelerator generating bright beams of synchrotron radiation, located in Cerdanyola del Vallès (near Barcelona city).
The electrons are accelerated in a 100 MeV linear accelerator (LINAC). Then, the electron beam enters in a...
Safety at a shared construction site - ESS perspective
In the framework of a new 400/66/18 kV substation, equipped with a 220 MVA power transformer on the French territory, advanced environmental protection measures were implemented to retain any oil leak or extinguishing water in case of a fire. The project was subject to an environmental study prior to construction, demonstrating that the impact on the surrounding environment is negligible. The...
Following a series of environmental incidents, mainly linked to aging infrastructure, in 2015 CERN carried out an inventory and risk assessment of areas concerned by the presence of liquid chemical agents. As an outcome, HSE and the concerned services identified the need of a CERN wide chemical inventory tool, of liquids, solids and gases that also takes into account other Safety needs within...
RIKEN Safety Management Division is in charge of safety management of research involving chemicals, high pressure gas, animals, microorganisms, radioactive isotopes, and the like. Our mission includes providing researchers with safety guidelines against disasters such as earthquake, as Japan is an earthquake-prone country.
An earthquake causes serious damage. Japan has the second highest...
The Worker-Management Health and Safety Committee is an important tool in supporting a strong health and safety culture at the Canadian Light Source. Required under Canadian legislation, Canadian companies must ensure the committee fulfills certain minimum requirements such as regular meetings and facility inspections. The mandatory committee structure creates a forum where workers and...
In order to ensure the safe operation of the facilities, various activities of safety management, fostering safety culture and safety education/training have been promoted in J-PARC.
In this presentation, activities about general safety shown below are introduced.
1) Management system of general safety: Committee, Expert group, Risk management (Check and review), Safety patrol
2) Safety...
Students at Jefferson Lab are not considered to have sufficient practical work experience or hazard-recognition skills for the equipment or processes to which they may be exposed. They require on-the-job observation and coaching to a greater degree than would a new employee with prior experience. Students are assigned a Mentor while at Jefferson Lab. Mentors are expected to inform Students of...
Open source learning management systems (LMS) are quite commonly available in scientific and research organisations. Despite they are versatile and flexible when it comes to variety of content, language, access control and scoring, they are not yet very widespread in prevention and safety.
ESO HSSE has embarked on providing certain courses on-line over open-source Moodle, and shall present a...
Safety Training at ESS
Lead has always been used at CERN for various reasons, mainly for shielding in experimental areas and laboratories, and highly misused in workshops (e. g. used as counterweight). An existing safety guideline concerning lead was already present at CERN, but it was poorly distributed to the users, that were not fully aware of the risks they were exposing themselves to. With an increased...
The PIP-II Project at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is implementing the Safety by Design process, also called Prevention through Design, to minimize occupational hazards early in the design process. The emphasis is on eliminating hazards and controlling risks to workers “at the source” or as early as possible in the life cycle of equipment, products, or workplaces. The Safety by Design...
The Heath, Safety and Environment Unit (HSE) at CERN makes extensive use of software tools to fulfil its mission. HSE exploits commercial solutions whenever they suit the Organization’s requirements.
If no fitting commercial solution exist, the HSE unit mandates an internal software development team to build in-house solutions, tailored to respond the specific requirements of the...
The LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) project aims at making the injector chains of the LHC capable of supplying the high intensity and high brightness beams requested by the High-Luminosity LHC. In addition to the construction of a new linear accelerator, the project comprises major upgrades and renovations of five existing accelerators and related surface buildings. From the Safety point of view,...
The P61B Large Volume Press (LVP) extreme conditions beamline will utilize white-beam synchrotron X-ray radiation with an energy range of 30-200 keV. The structure and properties of samples can be measured in situ under extreme conditions of high pressures and temperatures. A standalone use of the Large Volume Press without beam for materials synthesis has taken up operation for experienced...
ELI Beamlines is the Czech Republic based pillar of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), which benefits from the latest technical development in new generation laser technology to produce high intensity ultra-short laser pulses. ELI Beamlines aims at the development of ultra-short high brilliance X-rays sources and acceleration of particle beams.
After many years of preparatory work, ELI...
In the framework of the Neutrino Platform project at CERN, a new experimental area containing two experiments (ProtoDUNEs NP04 and NP02, prototypes of the DUNE detectors) has been built. Both experiments consist of an approximate cubic cryostat of 11 m side filled with liquid argon (LAr) in which a detector of about 6 m side is submerged. The NP04 detector operated with beam at the end of...
National legislation and facility-specific guidelines specify how to handle hazardous substances in commercial environments. Among other things, this includes appropriate storage and registers. The latter have to be maintained and revised at regular intervals. Scientific facilities with experimental processes, however, have a special framework that has to be considered. Dynamic experimental...
New technologies emerging from High-Energy Physics labs are quickly being deployed in large scales not only within the research infrastructures but also transferred to other commercial and industrial applications. Therefore, standardization of these innovative systems and equipment is essential to ensure an acceptable level of safety and quality, in which the cooperation between research and...
Health & Safety Group, ALBA Synchrotron facility, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
ALBA is the Spanish synchrotron facility formed with a 3GeV electron synchrotron accelerator generating bright beams of synchrotron radiation, located in Cerdanyola del Vallès (near Barcelona city).
The electrons are accelerated in a 100 MeV linear accelerator (LINAC). Then, the electron beam enters in a synchrotron...
The US Department of Energy (USDOE) National Labs are typically structured with an Executive Management team consisting of a Lab Director, Deputy Director for Science and a Deputy Director for Operations. The latter serves as the Laboratory’s Chief Operations Officer (COO), overseeing the mission support operations that help enable the science mission of the laboratory. A major responsibility...
The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is an upgrade of the LHC to achieve instantaneous luminosities a factor of five larger than the LHC nominal value, thereby enabling the experiments to enlarge their data sample by one order of magnitude compared with the LHC baseline programme.
The HL-LHC project deliverables rank from standard industrial equipment to innovative unprecedented technologies,...
Several negative experiences at Jefferson Lab uncovered a programmatic weakness in the way we tasked contractors providing various services. A process is being put in place to correct this deficiency.
The presentation describes how CE certification of equipment is handled at the ESRF. The ESRF uses many state-of-the-art, custom built equipment, which formally require CE certification. As most of these instruments are finally assembled at the ESRF, an organisation for CE auto-certification has been put in place.
The presentation will give a brief history of the process for CE certification...
In the course of ITSF 2017 DESY presented its approach to detect Helium leakages in superconducting infrastructure. The test setup, on which the report has been made, delivered promising results. It was therefore decided to take the next step and design a system based on infrared technology to monitor the main LINAC of the European XFEL facility. On the basis of these results, and other...
Announced in the 2017’s ITSF, we would like to give you an update on our now operative IR camera system that detects Helium leaks and fires in the XTL tunnel of the XFEL accelerator. During commissioning we were even able to prove an extended detection range over a few hundred meters for bigger events. We would like to show you some videos and talk about issues we had to face and – also –...
