Tag: safety
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CERN expands its collaboration on the Einstein Telescope
CERN and the Einstein Telescope collaboration have signed a new collaboration agreement in the field of engineering and safety to advance Europe’s next-generation gravitational-wave observatory
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Strengthening fire and rescue collaboration
CERN and Geneva Airport join forces by signing a new collaboration agreement
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Accelerator Report: Another exciting year ahead
Although the much-appreciated winter break is well behind us and most of us are back at work, the accelerator complex is still in hibernation – but not for much longer
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Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules Written by: HSE unit — The CERN Safety Rules listed below have been published on the CERN website dedicated to the Safety Rules: Safety Guidelines provide detailed instructions for the implementation of CERN Safety Rules. Compliance with a Safety Guideline provides a presumption of conformity with the associated
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Enhancing safety: improving seismic risk assessments
How a novel methodology helps to improve simulations of the impact of earthquakes on complex research infrastructures
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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
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
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
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






