Successful 2025 Physics Division Safety Week

February 25, 2025 — Ingrid Peterson

Berkeley Lab Physics Division News

The Physics Division's Safety Week 2025 ran the last week of January and focused on electrical safety. Physics Division Director Nathalie Palanque Delabrouille launched the week with an opening address, followed by a specialized presentation on Electrical Safety in Physics by Division Safety Coordinator, Ingrid Peterson. Laboratory Electrical Safety Officer, Ari Harding, led an interactive discussion and Q&A session.

Lab walkthroughs were completed by Physics Division Leadership, LBNL Electrical Safety Officer, and Safety Committee members. The Division recognized three staff members and their groups for outstanding contributions to laboratory safety. Congratulations to our award winners, Aritoki Suzuki, Dan Dwyer and Timon Heim.

	Cleanest and Most Organized Lab Space Awarded to the Cosmology Instrumentation Group under Aritoki Suzuki for the lab in 50-6016. The members, left to right in the picture are, Rebecca Carney, Aritoki Suzuki, Kaja Rotermund, Kungang Li.
	Best WPC Compliance Awarded to the Neutrino Research Group under Dan Dwyer.The members, shown in the picture in their 70-141 lab are, left to right, Cheng-Ju Lin, Matt Kramer, Kam-Biu Luk, Cynthia McNulty, Stephen Greenberg, Dan Dwyer. Back row: Roger Huang, Jaafar Chakrani.
	Most Improved Lab or Office Space Awarded to the members of the LBNL ATLAS group working on ATLAS ITk Strip detector production in 50-6040 under Timon Heim. The members shown in the picture from left to right are, Zhirong Zhang, Miao Hu, Botho Paschen,Timon Heim.

Throughout the week, staff members completed various safety initiatives, including:
General Electrical Safety training (EHS0260) now required for all staff in the Physics Division

• Equipment salvage
• Chemical inventory updates
• Door placard revisions

Congratulations to the Physics staff on a successful safety week and to the winners of the safety awards!