Power down over Christmas break & building circuit testing in New Year

Power down over Christmas break & building circuit testing in New Year
If you can turn off equipment over the Christmas break please do so.
Facilities have to test 30% of the electrical power supply ciruits to maintain compliance with safety regulations and this testing is due to take place in the week we return from Christmas break.
If labs & computers can be shut down in preparation of this it will make things quicker.

We will check all areas before the test is done to ensure nothing is obviously running. The test is of short duration, less than 2 minutes for each circuit but the circuit has to powered down
As soon as I have a firm date for the test (5th Jan has been proposed) I will get this out to everyone.
If you have equipment that can not be powered down please let me know it’s location (room number) as soon as you can.

Shonah Ion

 

 

Last university mail collection before Christmas

The last day for sending University mail will be Thursday the 23rd of December 2021 before the University closure, till the 3rd of January 2022.

Happy holidays!

See you in 2022!

Celine Neimark / Grainne Wilkinson

 

 

Useful Tip – The New Global Protect VPN

If you’re a user of the new Global Protect VPN service to access university resources from home and then come onto campus, it’s best to switch it off while you’re here.
On WIFI you can now access things like LUNA and Printing from Eduroam (and also the Ethernet of course) without VPN thanks to changes to the WIFI network.

So if you turn off the VPN while on site, then this should hopefully make your connection on campus quicker and free up a bit more speed for those off site.
Lastly if you’re using Remote Desktop from home then you don’t need the VPN either as it comes in a different route.

Physics IT

 

 

Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) declaration

It’s that time of year when we need to gather the records for the declarations under the Chemical Weapons Act to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
We are legally required to submit a declaration for CWC if we

• produce, process, consume (i.e. use), import or export any quantity of CWC Schedule 2 chemicals
• produce, import or export any quantity of CWC Schedule 3 chemicals
• produce above 200 tonnes of discrete organic chemicals (DOC), or above 30 tonnes of any DOC containing the elements phosphorus, sulphur or flourine (DOC/PSF)

The CWC schedules are on the Departmental safety SharePoint site.

I don’t think we have anything in schedule 1 but please let me know as soon as possible if we do!

Shonah Ion

 

 

Dept Safety handbook 2021 edition

It’s that time again to read, mark, learn & inwardly digest the latest edition of the Dept. safety handbook. As always, it’s full of useful links and guidance to keep us all safe.
It can be found on the Dept. SharePoint site in the Departmental safety area under “General”.

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/physics/information/staff/#safety-472462-3

Once read please confirm you have read and understood the contents by either signing the cover sheet and putting it in Grainne Wilkinson’s pigeon hole or by sending an electronic signed version to her. If you spot any typos or errors please let me know (and claim your prize!).

Shonah Ion