ONLINE INTEGRATION OF RADIATION SAFETY WORK CONTROL FORMS

ONLINE INTEGRATION OF RADIATION SAFETY WORK

CONTROL FORMS

2011 Accelerator Reliability Workshop

iThemba LABS, Cape Town, S. Africa

Jonathan WarrenApril 14th, 2011

Overview

• What is an RSWCF?

• Paper-based vs. Electronic RSWCFs

• Work Flow

• APEX and CATER

• Electronic logbook

• Future Projects

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Radiation Safety Work Control Forms

• Radiation Safety at SLAC– Objectives

• Prevent excessive beam induced radiation from being present in occupied areas

• Eliminate radiation hazards when personnel enters the accelerator housing

– Safeguards• Shielding• PPS - Personnel Protection System• BCS – Beam Containment System• BSOICs – Beam Shut-Off Ion Chambers

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Online RSWCFs

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Radiation Safety Work Control Forms

• Maintenance and modification of safeguards will be necessary

• Integrity of safety systems are of the utmost importance

• SLAC uses RSWCFs to control work that is performed on these devices

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Paper-

based

RSWCF

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Paper-based RSWCF

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Online RSWCF - List of Requirements

• Accessible yet secure

• History – Audit trail

• Documentation Configuration Control

• Work Flow

• Electronic Signature

Online RSWCFs

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List of Requirements (cont.)

• Error Handling

• Read-Only Version

• Timeout

• Integration with CATER (Comprehensive Accelerator Tool for Enhancing Reliability)

• Extensive checkout before releasing into production

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CATER

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• Web-based tool for reporting and tracking problems and scheduling maintenance

• Oracle database

• Developed using Oracle Application Express (APEX)

New CATERs

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Oracle Application Express (APEX)

• Free Product

• Web-based –No software installation

• Declarative low-level programming

• Driven from the database

• Ideal for programmer with basic understanding of relational db, including SQL (PL/SQL knowledge helps)

• Must use Oracle db

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APEX

• www.apex.oracle.com

• www.apexblogs.info

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Electronic Logbook

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RSWCF search page (Read-Only)

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RSWCF search page (Read-Only) cont.

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Future Projects

• Email notification for status changes

• Tailored for AOSD namely LCLS and FACET (coming Summer 2011)– Other groups at SLAC to use the new RSWCF

• XFD• NLCTA• SSRL• SPEAR3• GTL

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Future Projects cont.

• Thorough integration of CATER and the MCCelog

• Others (not listed or not thought of yet)

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