Improved safety at CERN

As announced in Weekly Bulletin No. 43/2006, a new approach to the implementation of Safety at CERN has been decided, which required taking some managerial decisions.

The guidelines of the new approach are described in the document 'New approach to Safety implementation at CERN', which also summarizes the main managerial decisions I have taken to strengthen compliance with the CERN Safety policy and Rules. To this end I have also reviewed the mandates of the Safety Commission and the Safety Policy Committee (SAPOCO). Some details of the document 'Safety Policy at CERN' (also known as SAPOCO42) have been modified accordingly; its essential principles, unchanged, remain the basis for the safety policy of the Organisation.

I would also like to inform you that I have appointed Dr M. Bona as the new Head of the Safety Commission until 31.12.2008, and that I will proceed soon to the appointment of the members of the new Safety Policy Committee.

All members of the personnel are deemed to have taken note of the documents mentioned above and I invite then to actively contribute to their implementation. The documents are available on the website of the Safety Commission, at the following address:

http://safety-commission.web.cern.ch/safety-commission/SC-site/index.html

I count on the collaboration of all of you to effectively implement the new approach to Safety at CERN.

Robert Aymar
Director-General