Dear US ATLAS Collaborators, We are committed to maintaining the highest safety standards for all work on ATLAS. As part of that commitment we want to make sure that all US ATLAS collaborators have the appropriate safety training and are aware of who to contact should safety issues arise. To that end we are attaching a one page Word document that provides a concise summary of relevant safety issues and contacts. In addition to this mailing, we are posting it on the US ATLAS website at http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/ (see Safety at CERN near the top left) and encourage you to bring it to the attention of any new members of your group that may not yet be on the general US ATLAS mailing list. We will be following up on the issue of training. While our goal is to ensure that no US personnel are involved in any accidents, it should be clear that the impact of a serious injury at CERN could have a potentially devastaing impact on the US LHC program as a whole. Mike and Howard ----------------------------- Note from Robin Staffin on Safety - April 18, 2006 ------------------------------------------- To All: The Office of Science has an uncompromising commitment to safety, integrity, and scientific excellence. To be world class in science we must be best in class in our safety performance. This commitment applies both inside our laboratories and to work we do around the world. As managers and safety officers of the U.S. ATLAS, U.S. CMS, and U.S. LARP programs, you understand that you are to hold safety as the highest priority for those who work on your programs, including U.S. personnel working at CERN. The CERN Safety Commission and other CERN safety professionals are responsible for establishing and implementing institutional safety policies, requirements, and procedures at CERN. As line managers of your respective programs, you are also responsible for the safety of U.S. personnel working at CERN in those programs. Accordingly, I expect safety to be integrated into all phases of your work and U.S. personnel in your programs to be appropriately trained for the work they do at CERN. I also expect you to monitor the safety performance of U.S. personnel in your programs at CERN through personal visits as well as tracking of incident/accident reports. In order to help ensure U.S. personnel work safely while at CERN, I ask that each program manager adapt the attached Safety Summary to include your program-specific contacts and distribute it to all US personnel working on your program at CERN including scientists, technicians, engineers, and administrators. The summary should also be posted to your project's web site and kept up-to-date. The Office of Science regards safety as our highest priority. Any concerns you have about the safety of U.S. personnel at CERN should be raised to me immediately. Thank you, Robin Staffin Associate Director of Science for High Energy Physics U.S. Department of Energy