1 / 6

SFT News 9 th May 2014

SFT News 9 th May 2014. News from TL Meeting – May 7th. New tri-partite agreement on radiation protection (CERN, CH,F) replaces previous bilateral agreements All incidents – make a significant event declaration normally made within 48 hours of the incident

marvelr
Download Presentation

SFT News 9 th May 2014

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SFT News9th May 2014

  2. News from TL Meeting – May 7th SFT Group Meeting 24th June • New tri-partite agreement on radiation protection (CERN, CH,F) • replaces previous bilateral agreements • All incidents – make a significant event declaration • normally made within 48 hours of the incident • Contact either GLIMOS (experiments) or DSO (Mark Hatch) You are invited to: • Take note of the CERN guide for significant events • Notify any event witnessed by you and that could be significant to the DSO or GLIMOS + RP and host states HSE relations for further discussion and or action • Ask any question you may have on this subject • Invite all persons under your responsibility to do the same

  3. 5 yearly Review of financial/social conditions SFT Group Meeting 24th June • Management made its proposals of what to review • ensure organisation is competitive for recruiting new staff • international survey of salaries and conditions by collecting data : locally, int’l organisations • includes comparison of fellows stipends etc., subsistence allowances, as well as staff salaries • MARS will be reviewed • current system not motivating staff, too resource intensive • Various social conditions being reviewed (Diversity) • benefits offered to same-sex partnerships • support structures for new parents etc • spouse/partner employment prospects • Intended for implementation : Jan 1st 2016

  4. Thefts SFT Group Meeting 24th June • An iMac was stolen from the 32/R-Cxx corridor • ~1 computer is being stolen each week @ CERN : 100k CHF/year • CERN no longer insures this sort of equipment • Lessons to be learnt: • lock office even if you step out for 5’ • take your portables home every evening • keep your valuables in a locked drawer • Kensington cables are of no help – thieves using cutters • I have reported the situation in the PH/TL meeting • I have asked for an appointment with CERN’s new Head of Security (Didier CONSTANT)

  5. Other news SFT Group Meeting 24th June • 3 (or more) white papers for HEP Software Foundation are being worked on • R.Mount (ATLAS), P.Spentzouris (FNAL?CMS), G. Quast (Germany) • will be circulated within the next 1-2 weeks • Springer interested in publishing a HEP Software journal (bi-monthly, quarterly?) • fits well with Foundation initiative • Springer is interested to produce a new book on Software Development in HEP that can serve as a basis for teaching university students • distributed devlopment, integration, testing, tools, parallelism • timescale Spring 2015 • SFT is asked to make a major contribution

  6. For the ‘sportives’ SFT Group Meeting 24th June • CERN Relay Race – June 4th • Swiss “Bike to Work” Event • 11 days in June – you can choose which days • 4 people / team – SFT participated with 1 team in 2012 and 2013 • Candidates this year: • John H • Sandro • Daniel • Rene • Benedikt • Pere – to be confirmed • Nefeli – to be confirmed • ?? • https://espace.cern.ch/bike2CERN/Pages/default.aspx

More Related