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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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

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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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