Safety requirements

  
To access to SOLEIL and facilities, the following safety requirements must be respected.

On SUN set, the main proposer should have:
  

• Declared the samples brought and the associated substances used,
    
  
• Selected the sample environment requested,
  
  
• Declared the ancillary equipment brought, if necessary.
    
• Described samples preparation method and precised the location of the preparation (support laboratory or beamline).
  
  
    
  

We remind you that each sample or each sample family as well as eventual ligand(s) have to be declared on-line on SUN set.
 

Please, pay attention that all samples or substances brought to SOLEIL by users remain entirely under their responsibility and must have been declared on-line and approved by SOLEIL safety group.
 

If you want to change some samples or to bring in some more samples, please modify your sample declaration on-line on SUN set, no later than 1 month before the beginning of your experiment.

Beware: concerning the radioactive samples, this declaration modification can see itself rejected, for example:
-   because of a too short delay in order to perform a successful analysis by the radioprotection agents,
-   because of the nature of the sample itself.

Any request about modifications made after this duration will not be accepted.

Please, read  ‘Importing ancillary equipments / samples’ section, to know much about this process.
     

  
Any ancillary equipment brought by users has to be declared.
 

Please, pay attention that all equipment brought at SOLEIL by users:

• must be in conformity with French regulations (mechanical, electrical, high pressure, …);
   
  

• remains entirely under their responsibility and must have been declared on-line and approved by SOLEIL safety group.
   

Exceptionally, it is possible to change or to bring additional ancillary equipment. If so, please modify your ancillary equipment declaration on-line on SUN set, no later than 1 month before the beginning of your experiment.
  

Please, read ‘Importing ancillary equipments / samples’ section, to know much about this process.

  

 
After the project examination, the safety group will classify your experiment:

• Green (no danger): experiment can be carried out.
  

• Yellow (specific danger): safety checking prior to the experiment beginning is required.
  
  
• Red (identified danger): safety checking prior to the experiment beginning is required and the presence of one user is mandatory on the beamline at any time.
  No experiment classified red will start on the week-end or during the night.
  
  

No matter how the experiment is classified, safety group can check at any time the experiment while running.

Safety Group reserves the right to stop the experiment if safety rules are not respected.

If the experiment is classified yellow or red, the following particular set up has to be observed: the experiment cannot start if the Safety Approval Sheet has not been signed   by the user, the hall coordinator and the safety group.

If the experiment is classified green, the signature of the Safety Approval Sheet by the safety group is not essential.

- on-line on SUN Set,
 


- at the beamline,
 
- from any computer at SOLEIL.

Periodicity:

The safety training is valid for one year. So each year at the anniversary date , you will be requested to complete again the safety training.

  
Content of the Safety training
  
The training contains the following items:

- SOLEIL Safety organization

- Safety Approval Sheets

- Fire protection

- Pacemaker process and magnetic fields

- Cryogenic risk

- Risk of anoxy

- Ionizing radiation 

- Personal Safety System (PSS) training

- What to do in case of accident / Procedure of evacuation

- Chemical safety - Electric risk

- Biological safety

- Mechanical risks

- Non ionizing radiation