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SLAC Hosts International HEP Technical Safety Forum
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Participants
at the safety forum.
(Photo by Diana Rogers) |
By Jack Hahn
SLAC
hosted the 5th International High Energy Physics Technical Safety Forum
April 11-15. Safety professionals from 15 institutions including
laboratories in Europe, China and the U.S.
This Conference is held approximately every 18 months, and has
presentations on a wide range of technical and programmatic safety
issues associated with such topics as Electrical, Personnel Protection,
Large Experimental Equipment, Construction, Photon Science and
Subcontracting. Participants also made a visit to the U.S. Geological
Survey in Menlo Park to assess some of the emerging issues surrounding
earthquake and Tsunami research done at this facility. The next Safety
Forum with be hosted by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England in
the fall of 2006.
Presentations from the Forum can be found at:
http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/itsf05/presentations.htm |
