Tag: safety

  • Blazing trails: CMS cavern evacuation paves the way for future safety design

    How an evacuation of the CMS experimental cavern has provided invaluable human behaviour data to improve emergency preparedness for complex underground facilities

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  • Learn the key skills to save lives on site

    Learn the key skills to save lives on site

    The Enlarged Directorate has received hands-on first aid training to learn life-saving actions – now it’s your turn!

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  • Balancing preservation with modernisation

    Ageing buildings, sustainable ambitions and 9500 ServiceDesk tickets in 2023 so far – here’s how the Site and Civil Engineering department defines site consolidation priorities

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  • Creating a community for radiological and environmental monitoring systems

    Creating a community for radiological and environmental monitoring systems

    The PulsRad22 workshop marked the completion of CERN’s new state-of-the-art radiation monitoring system and the creation of a new forum for discussion

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  • Assessing the seismic safety of CERN’s installations

    Assessing the seismic safety of CERN’s installations

    Surrounded by the Alps, the Jura and Lake Geneva, CERN is located in a particularly complex geological setting, which also happens to be a non-negligible earthquake-prone region. Compared to the rest of Europe, Switzerland has a moderate seismic risk, but the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) indicates that earthquake activity is not evenly distributed throughout the

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  • The many facets of safety in research infrastructures: CERN hosts the 2022 International Technical Safety Forum

    The many facets of safety in research infrastructures: CERN hosts the 2022 International Technical Safety Forum

    From 25 to 28 October, more than 100 people from CERN and other research institutes from around the world gathered in the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN for a key conference on health and safety matters

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  • Fire and rescue service newcomers successfully complete their induction

    Fire and rescue service newcomers successfully complete their induction

    In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some of our firefighter colleagues wearing a red T-shirt that reads “Firefighter in induction”

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  • CERN second Environment Report: concrete actions to reduce footprint

    CERN second Environment Report: concrete actions to reduce footprint

    The report covers the years 2019-2020 when the accelerator complex was in its second long shutdown, an opportunity for CERN to improve its environmental footprint on several levels

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  • CERN publishes its first public Environment Report

    CERN publishes its first public Environment Report

    Prepared according to the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards, the first public CERN Environment Report details the current status of CERN’s environmental footprint, along with objectives for the coming years

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  • How to have a safe and healthy winter

    Winter brings potential health and safety risks, most of which can be easily avoided by taking a few simple precautions

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