Safety training:

All users must follow the ESRF safety training course before beginning any work on the beamline.

The safety training session can be found on the ESRF Intranet: on the top of the home page, position your mouse on "Intranet" and in the drop-down list which appears click on "Users Safety Training"

Search and open the hutches:

Before opening the shutters, you need to ensure that the optical and experimental hutches are searched and interlocked. The procedure for this is shown in the safety training.

However, if you have forgotten, here is a brief reminder for the experimental hutch:

• Press the green start search button on the PSS panel (outside hutch - right of the door).
• Ensure no-one is in the hutch then press the two search buttons inside the hutch, in the right order: the first is located on the right of the hutch, the second on the left. (both lights should go green; if only one light comes on you can continue but you should inform the local contact).
• Close the hutch door firmly.
• Press the final yellow search button on the PSS panel.

 

 

Left: PSS panel (outside the hutch) - Middle: First search button (right as you enter the hutch) - Right: Second search button (left as you enter the hutch)

Note: If you need to enter the hutch for any reason make sure the data collection has finished or been stopped by ProDC and that the safety shutter is closed (this should be done automatically by ProDC but check the front end window to make sure!). Then press the black open hutch button on the PSS panel for a few seconds. The interlock light will go out on the PSS panel.

Normally the optical hutch does not have to be searched by Users. If you can not open the Front End and/or suspect the optical hutch to be searched, please call your local contact or the floor coordinator  (2525) for advice.