Manning of the Control Room - the crew

Manning of the Control Room - the roster

Main activities

Back up support

In an emergency... 

Manning of the Control Room - the crew

The shift crew is composed of

1 Full time Operator (Shift leader) + 1 Part Time Shiftworker (PTS)

Operators: Eight full time operators work on a shift roster ensuring the presence of at least one operator 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. They are also qualified as shift leaders.

Part Time Shiftworkers: Most of the technicians and Engineers of the Machine, Technical and Computing Services and also a few members from the Administrative staff.

Manning of the Control Room - the roster

A booking campaign for shifts establishes the roster six months in advance.

Shift: period of eight hours (the morning shift being from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., the afternoon shift from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and the night shift from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.)

Main activities

The main activities of the shift crew are:

• Refills of electrons in the storage ring (from two to eight times a day)
• Survey of all parameters of the beam characteristics
• Acting as a source of information for the beamlines
• Diagnosis of problems, and taking the necessary actions to resolve them
• Documentation of all events during the shift in the log book

Back up support

If expertise is required for a particular problem the appropriate person on call or standby is called

Standby: people on standby can be called at any time of the night or day to come in to resolve a problem preventing the machine from running. This may include coming to the ESRF.

Callable: those who accept to be callable may be called at any time to help resolve a problem. However, they are not held to come to the ESRF to fix a problem.

In an emergency ...

The shift crew are contacted in all emergency situations. All alarms are centralised in the CTRM (fire, injury, leak, lift breakdown). All operators are trained in First Aid and are briefed on how to react in emergencies.