1. Towards B+ HSS Assist Visit March 26-30 Photo of the Week Collider-Accelerator Department 3-13-12 Take 5 for Safety

2. Initiatives to Help BNL  Many recent events occur at the interface between BNL organizations  Formal procedures for IFM North work within C-AD research spaces  Draft C-AD procedures with other interfacing F&O organizations (MPO, F&O Sub-Contractors) to minimize injuries and events  Review of C-AD/RCD interfacing procedures  Self-assessment meetings between F&O FPMs and C-AD RSMs  C-AD manager work observations invites the IFM North Manager 2

3. Initiatives to Help Maintain Excellence at C-AD  Work Planning and Control changes were classroom-reviewed with C- AD Work Planners, plus C-AD created a new procedure for worker planned work  Continuing Human Performance training  Implementing revised Accelerator Safety Order  Implementing BNL’s proposed Configuration Management Program Description  Implementing procedures to comply with proposed changes to Sealed Source SA  Continuing the work of ad hoc Legacy Hazards Committee  Re-focusing WOSH Committee so that each member performs a safety task beyond their normal job  Using DCOOs and BNL Operations Council to address the interface issues between C-AD operations and SBMS 3

4. DOE HSS Assist Visit, March 26 -30  HSS team: 4 HSS inspectors, Bob McCallum consultant, and D. Hatton, A. Nunziata, R. Sabatini from BNL  HSS team will review our work planning and control processes, work planning products, implementing procedures, and experimental safety reviews  HSS team will interview our work planners, subject matter experts, managers, supervisors, users and workers  HSS team will perform facility walk downs, observe communication of work controls and perform inspections  Close-out brief on April 6, final report on April 20 4

5. Biting Off More Than You Can Chew 5 When you are unfamiliar with an activity you should act accordingly, or as the 18th- century English poet Alexander Pope wrote, “a little learning is a dangerous thing”