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Safety Training: places available in April

 

There are places available in the forthcoming Safety courses. For updates and registrations, please refer to the Safety Training Catalogue.

April 2012
(alphabetical order)

Noise - Understanding the risks
18-APR-12, 10.00 – 12.30, in French

Conduite de chariots élévateurs / Driving of forklifts
23-APR-12 to 24-APR-12, 09.00 – 17.30, in French (with possibility to have the handouts in English)

First-aiders – Basic course
23-APR-12 to 24-APR-12, 08.30 – 17.30 and 08.30 – 12.30 (total: one day and a half), in French

First Aiders - Refresher Course
24-APR-12, 13.30 – 17.30, in French

Habilitation électrique personnel non électricien / Habilitation électrique for non electricians
02-APR-12 to 03-APR-12, 09.00 – 17.30 and 09.00 – 12.30 (total: one day and a half), in French

Manipulation d’extincteurs : exercices sur feux réels / Use of fire extinguisher – live exercises
02-APR-12, 13.30 – 15.30, in French
11-APR-12, 13.30 – 15.30, in French

Radiological Protection
02-APR-12, 08.30 – 12.30, in English
23-APR-12, 13.30 – 17.30, in English
27-APR-12, 08.30 – 12.30, in English

Recyclage – Habilitation électrique personnel électricien en basse tension / Refresher course for electricians low voltage
03-APR-12 to 03-APR-12, 13.30 – 17.30 and 09.00 – 17.30 (total: one day and a half), in French

Risques liés aux interventions en espace confiné / Confined spaces
24-APR-12, 09.00 – 17.30, in French

Sécurité  Radiologique / Radiological Protection
02-APR-12, 13.30 – 17.30, in French
27-APR-12, 13.30 – 17.30, in French

Self-rescue mask training
03-APR-12, 08.30 – 10.00, in French
03-APR-12, 10.30 – 12.00, in English
05-APR-12, 08.30 – 10.00, in French
05-APR-12, 10.30 – 12.00, in English
10-APR-12, 08.30 – 10.00, in French
10-APR-12, 10.30 – 12.00, in English

Isabelle CUSATO, HSE Unit

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New refresher training in the use of self-rescue masks

Photos of the training session for self-rescue mask instructors held on 21 March 2012 – 10 new instructors followed the coursePhotos of the training session for self-rescue mask instructors held on 21 March 2012 – 10 new instructors followed the course

 

A refresher course in the use of self-rescue masks has been added to the CERN training catalogue.

Sign up!

More than 3500 people have followed the course since it was introduced in 2009.

Taking account of the forthcoming long shutdown, requests for follow-up training from course participants and recent changes in the course content, the HSE Unit has decided to place a three-year limit on the validity of the initial training and to introduce a refresher course.

The new refresher course is open to all personnel having completed the initial course at least 2 years ago.

The course, "Recyclage Formation masque auto-sauveteur » / "Refresher course Self-Rescue Mask Training", (code No. 077Y00R) is already available from CERN's training catalogue.
The first sessions are scheduled for April 2012.
The course will be offered in French and English and, like the initial course, will comprise both theory and practical sessions, including simulations under real conditions.

The Safety Training team anticipates a significant increase in requests for training before and during the first long shutdown known as LS1. You are therefore recommended to sign up for a course well in advance of the start of the shutdown if the validity of your training expires within the next year.

Please note that the Safety Training Service will send a reminder to all those whose initial training is due to expire during LS1.

If you are unsure when you followed the initial course, you can find the date in the HRT application (https://hrt.cern.ch/hrt/Training).

Safety Training Team

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Academic Training Lecture: Statistical Methods for Particle Physics

2, 3, 4 and 5 April 2012
Academic Training Lecture 
Regular Programme

from 11:00 to 12:00 -  Bldg. 222-R-001 - Filtration Plant

Statistical Methods for Particle Physics
by Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway)

The series of four lectures will introduce some of the important statistical methods used in Particle Physics, and should be particularly relevant to those involved in the analysis of LHC data. The lectures will include an introduction to statistical tests, parameter estimation, and the application of these tools to searches for new phenomena.  Both frequentist and Bayesian methods will be described, with particular emphasis on treatment of systematic uncertainties.  The lectures will also cover unfolding, that is, estimation of a distribution in binned form where the variable in question is subject to measurement errors.

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CERN-Famelab Geneva 2012 finalists gallery.

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CERN News - New Energy Record for the LHC

The LHC has started proton collisions at the unprecedent energy of 4 TeV per beam. This video celebrates the new milestone and explains the physics challenges and ecxpectations for the two larger experiments ATLAS and CMS through the words of the current physics coordinators Richard Hawkings and Greg Landsberg.

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VIP visit MedAustron

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The ICTR-PHE 2012 conference : alliance between the physics and medical communities

The ICTR-PHE 2012 conference, which closed its doors on March 2 after five busy days, sealed the alliance between the physics and medical communities. Some of the most futuristic research in medical physics was presented at the conference. Special emphasis was placed on medical imaging devices, currently used for diagnosis but with the potential to provide crucial real-time monitoring of treatment in the future. Radio-oncologists and radiotherapists represented a large proportion of the doctors and clinicians who attended the conference. With them were also biologists and doctors of nuclear medicine. They presented the state of the art of their research that touches on the genetics and biology of tumours as well as on futuristic drugs that selectively target malignant cells. The future of cancer treatment seems to lie in the personalised approach.

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Famelab Geneva 2012 finalists gallery

The 10 finalists' presentations at Famelab Geneva 2012

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Interview to Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Professor C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics State University of New York

Interview to Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, son of Maurice Goldhaber, for historical interviews series by Sebastian White

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Data Protection for All

What a stir… was caused by two articles in the last issue of the Bulletin, on “New Snail Mail Scanning Service” and “CERN meets Facebook”!

 

Indeed, respondents were completely correct that opening letters addressed to others and scanning such letters violates basic privacy rules. Also, giving your photo, address, computing accounts, personal files and documents to a third party - especially an external party - is a NO-NO, as CERN considers some of this data to be personal. For example, your CERN mailbox and your “private” folders on AFS and DFS are 100% yours. Neither your supervisor, the AFS/DFS/mail service administrators nor the Computer Security Team have any right to access this data. Strict procedures have been established for the rare cases where such access is necessary, and these require the approval of the CERN Chief Information Officer (CIO), the Legal Service and the DG.

But did you know that CERN is currently developing a data protection policy and the role of an appointed CIO (currently assumed by a combination of the head of the IT department and the Computer Security Officer)? Apart from Administrative Circular No. 10, data protection currently relies on the awareness and care of the individual. Not one of your problems? Indeed, CERN thrives on an open culture, so it is tempting to assume “we have nothing to hide”. Losing physics data might be a nuisance, but isn't that all? Still, there are your personal files, mailbox, financial and contractual data, confidential notes and minutes, passwords and credentials, and your medical records. These have to be protected in a consistent and clear way!
 
So we are set for change. In collaboration with the Legal Service and the GS, HR and IT departments, the computer security team is drafting a comprehensive data protection policy for storing, accessing and transferring data. Currently, the focus is on the proper definition of classification levels, i.e. “public”, “internal”, “restricted” and “sensitive”, and an exhaustive list of examples for each level (see here). This policy will be supplemented by policies on data storage, transfer and access. The list of examples will help to clarify classification and avoid incorrect classification within a data store. Finally, the data protection policy includes a policy on data destruction that has already been deployed (see here; see also our article in the Bulletin 10-11/2012).

However, the best way to protect data is still by being conscious and cautious! If you think some documents, files or data should be protected, make sure that they are. We are ready to help you with that.

For further information, check our web site or contact us at Computer.Security@cern.ch.

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