Tag: CERN community
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Electrical Safety Awareness Day | Join us on 25 June in Restaurant 2 to learn more about electrical risks and how to mitigate them
Electricity powers our world, but how confident are you with it? Are you switched on to electrical safety best practices, or could your knowledge use a spark to ensure that you and others stay safe? We all interact with electricity every day, but we may be less aware of the actual risks it poses. Whether
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Organising and coordinating activities during LS3: a shared responsibility
LS3 is set to be a busy period for CERN, with a wide range of activities taking place across the accelerators, experiments and buildings on the site – from construction, maintenance and upgrades, to consolidation and installation work, transport operations, tests and more. When these interventions overlap, the risks associated with concurrent activities increase. To
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Upcoming events
Check out this curated selection of upcoming events for the CERN community
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Summer is coming, and so are the wasps!
Wasps are a nuisance that unfortunately come hand in hand with warm spring days. Here are a few tips to help minimise their presence so that we can enjoy the outdoors in peace: Enjoy the great outdoors, have fun, but don’t get stung!
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A new way to manage your absences
From Monday 6 July 2026, a new process will make it easier and more secure to submit your absence certificates. This change gives you clearer guidance on the conditions for each type of absence and ensures that your certificates are sent directly to the right place – either to the HR Leave Service or to
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Q&A with CERN’s Chief Information Officer (CIO)
From 2026, CERN’s senior management includes the new role of CIO – Enrica Porcari answers questions about what this means for the Organization
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Computer Security: Copied, committed, KO
The old world of reusable IT components has been under threat for a while. While it was appreciated, efficient and effective to reuse software components written by others, attacks abusing this kind of “supply chain” are on the rise. For instance, rest-client in 2019, plutov-slack-client in 2020, atomicwrites in 2022, xzutils in 2024, chalk, “Shai-Hulud”
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Final collisions, new horizons
In the early hours of Sunday, 14 June, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had their last hurrah. In the control rooms of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – the four major experiments at the accelerator – scientists watched the final collisions burst across their screens like colourful fireworks. The collisions for physics
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Stay safe on the roads during the G7: 12–18 June 2026
As we navigate the exceptional access conditions for the G7 Summit (12–18 June), remember that road safety is a shared responsibility – whether you’re driving, cycling or walking. Increased traffic, border controls and potential diversions mean that your vigilance is more important than ever. Key reminders Let’s all do our part to keep CERN’s community safe during this
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CERN leads project to make EU scientific data more accessible
Sharing research data openly is transforming science, but it comes with challenges. Since 2021, EU-funded projects have been required to make their data FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The EU Open Research Repository (EOR Repository) was created through the HORIZON-ZEN project with this in mind and provides a dedicated space on Zenodo for data