IARPE - SLAC

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

News from SLAC

SLAC recently completed an on-site DOE Integrated Safety Management Systems (ISMS) Phase II Validation Team review. The purpose of the ISMS Validation was to ensure that the SLAC Safety Management System was properly integrated throughout the laboratory. Many aspects of large research accelerator operations were reviewed during this activity held during the Summer months of 1999 including:

Business Services Division (support role): Including the Purchasing and Project Planning aspects of the SPEAR3 project.
Environment, Safety, and Health Division (support role): For aspects of ISMS integration involving the central organization for safety issues including radiation safety, industrial safety and environmental management.
Technical Division (targeted): For ISMS integration in the principal organization at SLAC for the maintenance and operation of the accelerators, including aspects of the planning for the Next Linear Collider (NLC).
Research Division (targeted): For ISMS integration in the operation and design of detectors such as BaBar, the activities conducted by the High Energy Physics users' community (SLUO), and future planned projects including GLAST.
SSRL Division (targeted): For ISMS integration in the operation and design of the light source and beamlines at SLAC including the existing Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the activities conducted by the Basic Energy Sciences (BES) users' community, and future planned projects including SPEAR3.

Details of this process may be viewed on SLAC's ISMS Phase II Web site:

General information regarding SLAC's Safety Management System descriptive document and the DOE ISMS initiative may be viewed on the SLAC ISMS home page.