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Information for Onsite Users in 2022
Introduction
Given the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, the sanitary restrictions that were applicable on site are being progressively suspended.
For information concerning the latest COVID-19 travel restrictions to the ESRF, please read our User news item.
The Standard User Safety training now includes content concerning COVID-19 safety rules for onsite ESRF users. All users must follow this safety training before coming onsite, even if already followed less than 1 year ago, as the COVID-19-related content is updated regularly.
The wearing of masks is mandatory:
- In the premises of the Medical Service
- In the presence of an Experimental Hall Operator (EHO) during a beamline visit
Vending machines are operation again.
The ESRF Safety Group will continue to provide masks for users who come onsite, for those who wish to continue to protect themselves with this protective equipment. Please contact the Safety group.
Users who present symptoms must not come onsite.
Any user who starts to present symptoms while already onsite should immediately contact the Control Room - by using a red emergency telephone or dialling 10 on a normal telephone or ESRF mobile phone - and self-isolate to protect colleagues (in the Guesthouse room if non-local user, at home if local user).
If there are any issues with badge access, you may contact the User, CRG or Business Development Offices (during weekday working hours) or the Experimental Hall Operators directly by calling 25-25 (24/24h, 7d/7).
Room access badges can be picked up at the reception desk of the Guesthouse during opening hours, or directly from the site entrance when closed.
The Reception opening hours:
- From 7:00 to 20:00 on Monday to Friday
- From 7:00 to 12:00 on weekends, bank holidays
- Checkout time is now 12:00 am each morning
Outside these hours, the room badges will be left at the site entrance.
Payment can be done by credit card, cash and cheque.
Breakfast is served at the guesthouse from 7:00 to 10:00. Please continue to respect social distancing, masks must be worn at all times except when seated to eat.
The Guestroom is open and vending machines are operational.
Onsite eating options are back to normal.
Onsite restaurant:
- Opening hours :
- During weekdays: 11:30 - 13:30 (lunch) and 19:00 - 20:30 (dinner).
- During week-ends and bank holidays: 12:00 - 13:30 (lunch) and 19:00 - 20:30 (dinner).
- Some areas of the restaurant will remain with plexiglass for those with fragile health or who wish to keep using them during their meal.
Sandwich counter / Cafeteria: The cafeteria and sandwich corner provide normal service (from 9:30 to 11:00 and from 11:30 to 14:00 on Monday to Friday).
Vending machines: The use of vending machines is operational.
Users should ensure that they stop working and go to the restaurant and/or sandwich counter when they are open.
| i | In the case that users miss the available opening times at the restaurant and sandwich counter, there are restaurants, bakers and a supermarket on the Avenue des Martyrs (15min walk or 1 tram stop away - stop Marie-Louise Paris CEA). |
In addition to the onsite members of the user team, other members of the research team may join the experiment remotely and in some cases, with agreement from the local contact, experiments may take place fully remotely.
Users who will be involved in the experiment remotely must be identified using the checkbox “Remote User”.
For the users who will come onsite, fill in the A-form normally, indicating if there is a request for Guesthouse reservation and reimbursement (do not click on the “Remote User” box).
Local external users (Grenoble area) can request reimbursement in which case meal credits for using the onsite restaurant will be available on their user badge as before. The Guesthouse is reserved for non-local external users but can be used by local users at their own expense if rooms are available 5 days before the experiment.
All samples must be declared in the A-form and in ICAT for both onsite and remote experiments. Sample sheets must be added at the level of the proposal, and then declared in the A-form for the experiment session in question. Parcels must then be set up in ICAT, even if the samples are being brought to the site, so that they can be tracked before, during and after the experiment. If samples are brought to the site, they do not need to transit through the Stores but the beamline staff must update their tracking status in ICAT when they arrive at and leave the beamline, or when they are destroyed. See the instruction web page for Remote Experiments on Non-Structural Biology beamlines for details on how to do this.
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