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Quality Assurance Policy

QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY AND PROJECT ORGANISATION

Abstract This document defines the general policy for Quality Assurance to be used for the whole LHC Project. It gives the project organisation, the quality assurance organisation within the project and defines the various associated responsibilities, from accelerator component design to final installation, commissioning and operation, through the full construction process. The LHC machine will be subjected to specific rules enacted by the Host States, which concern Safety for Basic Nuclear Installations. The policy for Safety and its relations with Quality Assurance are also given in this document.

Prepared by :

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Paul Faugeras Deputy to the LHC Project Leader For Quality Assurance Paul.Faugeras@cern.ch

LHC Quality Assurance Working Group LHC Project Leaders Office

Lyn EVANS Director, Leader of the LHC Project

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History of Changes
Rev. No.
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Date
1999-09-09 1999-09-20 1999-09-23 1999-10-15 1999-11-09

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Description of Changes

2nd draft, chapter 5 completed. 3rd draft, chapter 6 modified, figure 1 inserted in text. Comments from Project Leader included. First release of approved document 15-16 Annex A.1 added

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Table of Contents
1. 2. 3. 4. 4.1 4.2
4.2.1 4.2.2 4.2.3

PURPOSE ................................................................................................ 5 SCOPE..................................................................................................... 5 QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY ................................................................ 5 ORGANISATION...................................................................................... 6 PROJECT ORGANISATION..........................................................................6 LHC PROJECT LEADER ..............................................................................6
LHC PROJECT LEADERS OFFICE...................................................................... 6 DIVISIONS ................................................................................................... 6 COMMITTEE STRUCTURE................................................................................ 8

4.3
4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3

QUALITY ASSURANCE ORGANISATION .......................................................9

RESPONSIBILITIES ....................................................................................... 9 DEPUTY TO LHC PROJECT LEADER FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE .......................... 10 QUALITY ASSURANCE REPRESENTATIVES AND QA WORKING GROUP................ 10

5. 5.1
5.1.1 5.1.2 5.1.3

QUALITY ASSURANCE PLAN.................................................................. 10 PROJECT DEFINITION .............................................................................10

PARAMETERS AND LAYOUTS......................................................................... 11 LHC HARDWARE BASELINE .......................................................................... 11 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT ................................................................... 11

5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 5.12 6. 6.1 6.2 7. 8.

DESIGN CONTROL..................................................................................11 DOCUMENT AND DATA CONTROL .............................................................11 PURCHASING AND CONTRACTING............................................................12 PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY.........................................12 MANUFACTURING PROCESS CONTROL......................................................12 INSPECTION, TESTING AND QUALITY RECORDS ........................................12 CONTROL OF NON-CONFORMING PRODUCT ..............................................13 HANDLING, STORAGE, PACKING AND DELIVERY ........................................13 INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND SERVICING............................................13 QUALITY AUDITS ...................................................................................13 TRAINING .............................................................................................13 SAFETY POLICY .................................................................................... 14 GENERAL SAFETY...................................................................................14 QAP FOR IMPORTANT SAFETY ELEMENTS ..................................................15 ANNEXES .............................................................................................. 15 REFERENCES......................................................................................... 15

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1. PURPOSE
This document defines the general policy for Quality Assurance to be used for the whole LHC Project. It gives the project organisation, the organisation of quality assurance within the project and defines the various associated responsibilities, from accelerator component design to final installation and commissioning, through the full construction process. The LHC machine will be subject to specific rules enacted by the Host States, which concern Safety for Basic Nuclear Installations. The policy for Safety and its relations with Quality Assurance are also given in this document.

2. SCOPE
The present Quality Assurance Programme concerns the whole LHC Project. In this context, the LHC Project is defined as being made of: ! The LHC accelerator proper, with all machine components such as superconducting dipoles, quadrupoles, correctors, feed boxes, acceleration system, beam monitors, vacuum system, beam extraction and dumping systems and cleaning systems, etc. ! The magnetic elements which are used to focus the beams onto the collision points and the associated protection system. ! The specific LHC machine services: cryogenics, magnet powering and protection, controls, communications, access and interlock systems. ! The tunnel infrastructure and related services such as survey, cooling, ventilation, electricity distribution, transport and installation tools. ! Civil engineering works and the associated infrastructure needed for housing the LHC detectors. ! The two transfer lines from the SPS accelerator to the LHC, with the extraction system from the SPS and the injection systems into the LHC. ! The transformation of the SPS machine as an injector for LHC. The large LHC detectors ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHC-b, as well as the experiment TOTEM are not part of the LHC Project, in as much as they do not interfere with the LHC machine. They are independent projects in themselves and some have their own Quality Assurance Plan.

3. QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY

The aim of the LHC Project is to build a world-class particle accelerator for high energy physics research, [1]. The size and duration of the Project, the geographical distribution of the Institutes, Contractors and Suppliers involved in the design and construction, the extensive use of advanced technologies call for a Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) to be put in place. Moreover, the intrinsic complexity of the machine and the difficulty, not to say the impossibility, of correcting defects and/or consolidating the cold parts of the machine deserve particular attention to the quality of products and of workmanship. Detailed documentation of all accelerator components, from the early design stage, continuing through all fabrication and testing processes, until the final installation and operation, are also essential, as very few accelerator builders will remain at CERN after the initial start-up of LHC. The objectives of the QAP are to ensure that the LHC machine is built according to its design goals, on time and within budget, and that it can be operated, maintained and improved to the entire satisfaction of the users community, in a cost-effective manner.

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4. ORGANISATION
4.1 PROJECT ORGANISATION
The overall project organisation is depicted in figure 1.

4.2 LHC PROJECT LEADER

A Director leads the LHC Project; he is nominated by the CERN Council and reports directly to the CERN Director-General. He is responsible for the accomplishment of the project objectives, within the allocated budget and the agreed time scale and for distributing the work inside CERN as well as with external Institutes, which collaborate with CERN for LHC construction.

4.2.1 LHC PROJECT LEADERS OFFICE

The LHC Project Leader has established a LHC Project Office composed of senior staff, to help him on the following specific subjects that affect the whole project: Parameters and Layouts, Technical Co-ordination, Planning and Installation Preparation, Handling of Procurement Contracts and External Collaborations, General Safety and Safety for Basic Nuclear Installations, Budget, Personnel, Local Affairs and Environment, Quality Assurance.

4.2.2 DIVISIONS
The LHC Project Leader has distributed the LHC work into CERN Divisions, as follows:

4.2.2.1 LHC DIVISION

This division, formerly called Accelerator Technologies Division is in charge of the core systems of the LHC accelerator: Superconducting cables and magnets, Cryostating, integration and magnet interconnections, Cryogenics, Vacuum, Insertion elements, correctors, superconducting magnet protection, Support for industrial controls and supervision.

4.2.2.2 SL DIVISION
This division operates the existing LEP and SPS machines and provides the following systems and services: Accelerator physics studies, Transformation of the SPS as an injector for LHC, Injection transfer lines TI2 and TI8, including the injection systems in LHC, Accelerating system, Beam extraction and dumping systems, Warm insertion magnets for LHC, Magnet powering, Beam Instrumentation, Accelerator controls.

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L. Evans

Project Management
H. Atherton M. BuhlerBroglin P. Faugeras J-P. Gourber J. Karlson Forestier P. Lebrun P. Lefvre G. Rau, A Faugier T. Taylor

Project Leader Chairman of the LHC Management Board Project Leader's Office: Non-Member State Collaborations Chairman of the LHC Specification Cttee Budget and Human Resources Local Affairs and Environment Technical Coordination and Planning DQA, Chairman of the TCC Special Studies Collaboration with France and India Project Leader's Secretary LHC Division Leader Chairman of the TC Parameters and Layouts Chairman of the PLC Project Safety Coordinator INB Collaboration with Japan and US Chairman of the MARIC

Committees
AC MB LHC Management Board TC Technical Committee

Divisions
Accelerators Directorate Unit Directorate Services Unit Finance Supplies, Procurement & Logistics Technical Inspection and Safety Commission Engineering Support and Technology Technical Support Proton Synchrotron SPS + LEP Large Hadron Collider DSU FI SPL TIS EST

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TCC

PLC

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MARIC

ST PS SL

Working Groups

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SC : Specification Committee TCC : Technical Coordination Committee PLC : Parameters & Layout Committee LEMIC : LHC Experiment Machine Interface Committee MARIC : Main Ring Committee

External Collaborations
USA Russia Japan India Canada Host States

LHC Experiments
ALICE ATLAS CMS LHC-B TOTEM

Figure 1 - LHC Project Organisation

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4.2.2.3 PS DIVISION
The transformation of the PS as a pre-injector for LHC is not part of the LHC project strictly speaking, as it is financed outside the budget for the project. However, the CPS beam parameters are determined by SPS and LHC requirements and as such are under the control of the LHC Project Leaders office.

4.2.2.4 EST DIVISION

The Engineering Support and Technology Division provides support for Mechanical engineering design support and drawing offices, Design of infrastructure for underground areas, liaison with LHC experiments, Transport vehicles, Informatics support for management tools, CAD tools and 3D simulation, Materials and surface treatments, Workshops.

4.2.2.5 ST DIVISION
The Site and Technical support Division is in charge of: Civil engineering works, both on surface and underground, Cooling and Ventilation, Electricity distribution, Access control and interlock systems, High-level safety alarms.

4.2.2.6 OTHER DIVISIONS

The project makes use of the services provided by other CERN Divisions such as: Purchasing and contract follow-up with SPL Division, Advice and control in matters of safety and radiation protection, radiation monitoring from TIS Commission, Appointment of staff, personal matters, visitors with PE Division, Financial control, payment of invoices, budget from FI Division, Legal services from the Directorate Services Unit.

4.2.2.7 EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS

External collaborations have been established with countries, which are not CERN Member States. Special agreements have also been signed with the two Host States. The objective of these collaborations is to provide components and/or complete subsystems ready for installation. These items are detailed in the LHC Project Baseline, [2], and are also concerned by the present QAP.

4.2.3 COMMITTEE STRUCTURE

Coordination between these different organisational units, which are physically distant from each other, is insured by a set of Committees whose structure is orthogonal to the functional units and which is made of the following:

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4.2.3.1 LHC MANAGEMENT BOARD

This Committee is chaired by the LHC Project Leader and is composed of the CERN Director-General, the CERN Directors and Divisions Leaders concerned and of the members of the Project Leaders Office. Its mandate is to define the general policy of the project, its time scale, to set priorities and make sure that adequate resources are allocated.

4.2.3.2 LHC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

This Committee, normally chaired by the LHC Division Leader, is composed of the persons responsible of the main LHC systems, the related Division Leaders and of members of the Project Leaders office. Its mandate is to follow the technical progress of the project and to approve the technical choices proposed by the other committees.

4.2.3.3 OTHER LHC COMMITTEES

Other committees have been set up each with a more specialised scope. They are: Parameters and Layouts Committee, PLC, Technical Co-ordination Committee, TCC, Specification Committee, SpC, LHC Experiments and Machine Interface Committee, LEMIC, MAin RIng Committee, MARIC, (Internal technical committee of LHC division). The mandate of these various committees is self explanatory from their title. More details on the membership, dates of meetings, minutes and subject discussed can be found in [3]. Each of these committees can set up ad-hoc working groups when a subject deserves particular attention or special studies. A working group normally starts with a written mandate from the LHC Project Leader or from the chairman of one of the above committees and ends by making recommendations to its parent committee. The list of currently active working groups is also given in [3].

4.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE ORGANISATION

4.3.1 RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsibility for quality starts from the top with the LHC Project Leader and permeates through the entire project. Each Division Leader, Group Leader and Project Engineer involved in the project is responsible for the quality of his own work and that of his subordinates. Implementation of Quality assurance is the daily responsibility of all project persons. It is part of their professional duties to ensure that materials, components and assemblies of the systems each person is responsible for, are compliant with all applicable requirements of the QAP and that the procedures given herein are followed. Particular attention is drawn to a correct documentation of the construction process, from the design phase to the in situ commissioning. This must be done with the tools described in the QAP standards, in order to ensure availability of the relevant information and traceability of the end product over the whole LHC lifetime. Collaborating Institutes are bound to follow the LHC QAP for their work. If a similar Quality Assurance Programme has already been implemented by a particular Institute, it can be used, as long as the relevant information is made available to the whole LHC community and is physically transferred to CERN at the end of the collaboration in order to ensure traceability of the delivered products over the whole LHC life.

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4.3.2 DEPUTY TO LHC PROJECT LEADER FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

The LHC Project Leader appoints a member of the Project Leaders office as his Deputy for Quality Assurance. The role of the Deputy for Quality Assurance (DQA) is: To assist the Project Leader in the definition and to coordinate the development and implementation of the LHC QAP, To advise Division Leaders, Group Leaders and Project Engineers in matters of Quality Assurance. All project persons have access to the DQA for consultation and guidance.

The DQA reports directly to the LHC Project Leader.

4.3.3 QUALITY ASSURANCE REPRESENTATIVES AND QA WORKING GROUP

Each functional unit, Division, Group, collaborating Institute, etc., shall designate a representative for Quality Assurance, QAR, who should be a knowledgeable person in quality assurance and of the work to be performed by his own unit. All QAR meet regularly in the Quality Assurance Working Group, whose chairman is a particularly competent person in the field of QA and is appointed directly by the Deputy for Quality Assurance. The Quality Assurance Working Group, (QAWG), reports to the LHC Technical Co-ordination Committee, TCC, and informs other LHC committees whenever needed. Meetings of the QA Working Group are documented and membership and minutes are available through the LHC Project Web pages, [4]. The mandate of the Quality Assurance Working Group is to prepare, review and publish with the approval of the Deputy for Quality Assurance a QA Plan for the LHC Project covering all LHC related activities. Quality Assurance Representatives shall in turn be concerned by the implementation of the QA Plan in their own unit and shall report to the QA Working Group of activities, problems and status related to QAP implementation. In this context, they shall have the authority to access work areas of their unit and have the freedom to identify problems that could result in a degradation of quality and to propose corrective actions.

5. QUALITY ASSURANCE PLAN

The LHC Quality Assurance Plan, QAP, has been organised in six main parts, each covering a particular type of documents, namely: Policy, which defines the QA requirements of the project activities, Definitions, i.e. the various common conventions in use throughout the project, Procedures, which are descriptions of the course of actions to carry out to implement the project QA policy, Standards, which give detailed requirements for project documents, Templates, for the preparation of project documents, Instructions, for a step by step execution of specific tasks.

The QAP documents cover all LHC related activities, as follows:

5.1 PROJECT DEFINITION

The Project was approved and started on the basis of the LHC Design Report, the socalled Yellow Book, [1]. Since then the project has evolved and may continue to do so for quite some time. A Project Baseline has therefore been set up to ensure that everybody in the project works on the same parameters and data. This configuration baseline is made of two main parts, both accessible on the Web, [2]:

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5.1.1 PARAMETERS AND LAYOUTS

This part consists mainly of two sets of tables, one giving the expected performances for the machine under various operating conditions, the other for the main parameters of the equipment to be built, which influence the final beam performances, for instance the nominal working parameters of the different magnet systems. In addition, the arrangement and the geographical position of the different machine elements in the main ring are described in various drawings called conceptual, schematic and installation layouts, depending on the degree of details that is shown.

5.1.2 LHC HARDWARE BASELINE

This Project Breakdown Structure gives the list of all hardware components and subassemblies to be designed and fabricated arranged in a hierarchical tree structure. Each item, a leaf in the tree, carries with it all documents necessary to its definition: functional specification, definition drawings, technical specification, etc., as well as the name of the responsible person for that item, who is called Project Engineer.

5.1.3 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Parameters and Layouts and the Hardware Baseline form together the unique reference basis for the LHC Project at a given time. Each project person must use this Project Baseline for his activity. Project Engineers must keep the Project Leaders Office informed of the evolution of the item(s) they are responsible for. However, updating this Project Baseline can only be done by the Project Leaders Office, after the adequate procedure has been followed.

5.2 DESIGN CONTROL

A complete procedure for the design process and control has been issued and must be strictly followed. It is applicable to the whole LHC Project from conceptual design to the release of all documents required for purchasing and manufacturing. In essence, Project Engineers must start by writing a functional specification for, and assign a quality assurance category to the equipment they are in charge of. Design planning shall define the milestones for design criteria, the design reviews, design files and the final specifications. If in the course of design, it appears necessary to modify some basic input parameters or documents belonging to the Project Baseline, the Project Engineer must make an Engineering Change Request, ECR. Before being transformed into an Engineering Change Order, ECO, the ECR must be accepted by the project management at the appropriate level once its implications on other systems, on budget and on planning have been assessed. The Project Leaders Office can modify the Project Baseline accordingly by following also this procedure.

5.3 DOCUMENT AND DATA CONTROL

Documents such as specifications, drawings, standards, procedures, instructions that are necessary for describing accurately an item with its quality requirements are considered as quality-related documents. This is also the case for procedures and instructions, which specify critical manufacturing processes, testing, installation and running operations. All quality-related documents must be verified by the adequate Quality Assurance Representative to ensure that they are clear, complete and non-ambiguous. Each

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5.4 PURCHASING AND CONTRACTING

The CERN purchasing rules are defined by the CERN Finance Committee, with the advice of specific bodies, in particular the SPL Division, which is in charge of applying the rules. A compendium of all CERN purchasing rules actually valid is available, [5], and was used to prepare a procedure applicable to the LHC Project. A prerequisite for purchasing equipment, components and/or services is a clear technical definition of what is required, which must take the form of an approved technical specification. Verification of the consistency of the proposed purchase with the Project, technically, financially and time-wise, is done through the Specification Committee. Collaborating Institutes must follow the same rules when the invoices are charged to CERN. In case of in-kind contributions from Non Members States, purchasing rules specific to the supplying Institute will be followed, but the LHC Project must give its prior agreement for the technical content and performances of the supply.

5.5 PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY

A part identifier must be defined according to the rules set up in the QAP and used for identifying uniquely, as individual pieces or as batches of identical pieces, all LHC parts that will be manufactured and installed in the LHC machine. This identifier must ensure the traceability of each LHC item, through its entire life cycle, including removal from the LHC machine. Off-the-shelf components may have a simplified identifier, which should nevertheless allow tracing back to the supplier, the date of manufacture and the type of component.

5.6 MANUFACTURING PROCESS CONTROL

A procedure for controlling all stages of the manufacturing process has been issued and is included in this QA Plan. It covers the whole process, from raw material procurement until final inspection and test. It describes the responsibilities involved in defining, implementing and controlling the manufacturing and testing procedures, which enable verification that all specified requirements are met.

5.7 INSPECTION, TESTING AND QUALITY RECORDS

Manufacturing procedures, certification of raw materials, testing procedures and test result record sheets are considered as quality-related documents and as such must be identified using the same coding as for the design file (see 5.3 above). All records pertaining to a specific item must also bear the item identifier. All these records must be made available to CERN, preferably by using the computer means and data sheets made available by CERN. For complex LHC items such as Dipoles, Short Straight Sections, Insertions Elements, CERN is implementing a computerized recording and archiving system, called a Traveller, which must be used by each main manufacturer and his subcontractors. CERN will install at the manufacturers premises the computer terminals, which are needed for gathering this information making it available to all qualified persons.

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5.8 CONTROL OF NON-CONFORMING PRODUCT

Non-conforming equipment produced by Contractors, collaborating Institutes and CERN Divisions and Groups should be segregated from the conforming equipment, so as to prevent their installation in the LHC. Reoccurrence of problems leading to nonconformance should be eliminated or minimised by implementing appropriate corrective and preventive actions. All non-conformities must be properly documented and traceable. No repair on non-conforming equipment shall be undertaken prior to the written agreement to do so by the appropriate level of the Project management.

5.9 HANDLING, STORAGE, PACKING AND DELIVERY

These operations are parts of Quality Assurance. Particular attention must be paid to the long-term storage of assembled equipment, which must be done in such a way that it should not be necessary to re-commission or re-test any equipment after a long storage period. Any event happening during handling, storage, packing and/or delivery must be recorded in the traveller. This includes the tests, which may be performed to verify the integrity of the equipment before using it.

5.10 INSTALLATION, OPERATION AND SERVICING

Installation and maintenance operations must be treated with the same Quality Assurance as for fabrication, namely all procedures and tests to be performed must be defined in advance and recorded in the traveller of the corresponding item. This also includes the dismantling or removal of a particular equipment. When equipment will be installed in the machine, it will receive a physical address, which, together with the equipment code, will be used to identify it in the machine. Traceability will then be ensured with a specific database, which will make a unique link between an installed element address and the part identifier, which is attached to the real product occupying this physical location. When equipment is removed, its traveller must be updated accordingly and the correspondence database must be updaded to reflect the installation of a new item.

5.11 QUALITY AUDITS

Quality Assurance Representatives have to review continuously the QA implementation in their respective unit. They must report their findings to the Deputy for Quality Assurance during the QAP Working Group meetings. The Deputy for Quality Assurance will in turn report to the LHC Project Leader formally at least twice a year. The LHC Project Leader may decide, following a proposition from the DQA, to perform an internal or external audit on Quality Assurance for the whole or part of the project.

5.12 TRAINING
Each supervisor in the LHC Project must ensure that his subordinates are correctly trained both in their domain of competence and in quality assurance. For CERN staff, the CERN Education Services can help in improving the technical skills of individuals. The Deputy for Quality Assurance, the Quality Assurance Representative of each Group and the Informatics Support team of the EST Division are all available to disseminate quality assurance information and related computer tools.

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6. SAFETY POLICY
The objective of safety assurance policy is to ensure that all safety risks associated with the design, development, production, operations and disposal or recycling of LHC equipment and activities are adequately identified, assessed, minimised, controlled and finally accepted through the application of the CERN safety rules and regulations. The LHC Project safety policy is: To ensure that the LHC Project systems and activities will not cause a hazard to, in order of priority: - Human life - The environment - CERN installations and private property To determine and evaluate the safety risks associated with the Project activities, To minimise safety risks by appropriate preventive measures and in a costeffective manner, To ensure adequate verification of safety control measures.

The LHC Project Leader has appointed one senior member of the LHC Project Leaders Office as General Safety Co-ordinator for the project, see fig.1. The LHC Project safety policy is implemented to ensure that: Safety is designed into the LHC systems and components, Safety requirements are met, Hazards are identified, and eliminated or, where this is not possible, minimised, ranked, and controlled in accordance with the Project objectives.

6.1 GENERAL SAFETY

The CERN Director General defines the general CERN policy in matter of safety with the advice of the Safety Policy Committee, SAPOCO. The basic document in this matter is referenced as SAPOCO/42 (Rev. September 1994), [6], which stipulates: Everybody is responsible for the safety of the work he is performing, Each supervisor is responsible for the safety of his team, Nobody can discharge himself from his responsibility in matter of safety, and shall make himself and his subordinates aware of safety rules pertaining to his activities, CERN must supply the staff with all of what is necessary for ensuring safety for the assigned tasks.

The LHC Project must comply with this reference document SAPOCO/42. In particular, the project will use the internal safety organisation, which is described in the relevant Divisional Safety Plans, and the TIS Commission will control all safety aspects of the project. Collaborating Institutes outside CERN can follow their own national safety rules in performing their tasks but have to prove that the end product they deliver for the LHC Project fulfils CERN requirements in matter of safety. As for Quality Assurance, safety must be included in all stages of product fabrication, from early design to final installation, operation and even removal from the machine. In the case of external firms coming on the CERN sites for performing any kind of work, special rules have been laid down, [7], and Project Engineers are responsible for making sure that the firms are aware of these rules and are conforming to them.

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6.2 QAP FOR IMPORTANT SAFETY ELEMENTS

The LHC machine is amenable to the specific rules valid for Basic Nuclear Installations, Installations Nuclaires de Base, or INB, [8], enacted by France, one of the Host States, and accepted by the other Host State, Switzerland. The LHC General Safety Co-ordinator is also in charge of following-up the correct application of the INB rules. Among other constraints, INB regulations require the definition of Important Safety Elements, called Elments Importants pour la Scurit or EIS, which must be in a well-defined state and/or must perform specific actions to put the machine in a safe state, i.e.: Guarantee that there is no possibility to enter into a LHC zone with the beam enabled condition, Require evacuation and interlock checking of all zones before beam enabled, Make beam injection impossible when there is personnel in an accessible zone.

These EIS must obviously follow the LHC QAP, but in addition they will be submitted to particular procedures defined in a specific chapter of the present QAP. For easier reference, this specific chapter for EIS, together with the definition of CERNs policy for INB, [9], is self-contained but it is understood that it remains part of the LHC QAP.

7. ANNEXES
A.1 Quality Assurance Representatives, members of the QA working group

8. REFERENCES
[1] The Large Hadron Collider conceptual design, The LHC Study Team, CERN/AC/95-05(LHC), 20 October 1995. [2] Web address of the LHC Project Base line: http://wwwlhc01.cern.ch/ [3] Web address of LHC Committees and Working Groups list: http://wwwlhc01.cern.ch/org/org.htm [4] QA WG address: http://nicewww.cern.ch/~mottier/qapwg/qapwg_homepage.htm [5] CERN Purchasing Procedures, SPL-DI/RP/ck603, 15 June 1999. [6] La Politique de Scurit au CERN, SAPOCO/42, September 1994, available at TIS secretariat, CERN. [7] LHC Project Overall Safety and Health Protection Plan, CERN/TIS-GS/IR/98-04-A. [8] Arrt du 10 aot 1984 relatif la qualit de la conception, de la construction et de lexploitation des installations nuclaires de base, Journal Officiel de la Rpublique Franaise dat du 22 septembre 1984. [9] Manuel dAssurance de la Qualit, C. Jacot, ST/DI/INB-MAQ, 1 sept. 1999.

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Name Pierre Bonnal Paul Faugeras Ronald Forrest Stefano La Terza Patrick Lienard Michel Mathieu Dominique Missiaen Marcel Mottier Vittorio Parma Thomas Sven Pettersson Pierre Strubin Udo Wagner John Pedersen John Osborne Joaquin Inigo-Golfin Jean-Jacques Gras Jan Bonthond

Group represented AC Deputy for QA SL/PC EST/ESI LHC/MMS EST/ESM EST/SU QAWG Chairman LHC/CRI EST/ISS LHC/VAC LHC/ACR ST/EL ST/CE ST/CV SL/BI SL/BT

Annex A.1: Quality Assurance Representatives, members of the QA working group