Safety Organisation at ESO

ESO Safety Organisation

General

The Director General (DG) is responsible to the ESO Council for all safety matters at ESO and is directly assisted in these tasks by the ESO Safety Engineer.

The ESO Safety Engineer is responsible for the systematic development of a comprehensive safety and health concept at ESO. To fulfill his duties he has the right to investigate in all aspects of occupational health, safety and environmental protection in all of ESO´s activities and a right of access to all relevant documents. Furthermore, the ESO Safety Engineer can act in emergencies and cases of imminent danger to suspend the work immediately. In special cases the ESO Safety Engineer can permit exceptions to applicable safety regulations.

Each ESO Site has one person nominated as "Site Safety Engineer ".

ESO Site Safety Engineers are responsible for facilitating and co-ordinating ESO's safety and health programme at the respective sites. All Site Safety Engineers report to the head of the respective site and provide reports to the ESO Safety Engineer. A safety report is periodically provided to the Director General via the ESO Safety Engineer.

The ESO Site Safety Engineers
Site	Name	Tel.	Office	Remarks
ALMA	J. Lassalle	+56-55-448 409		ALMA Safety Manager
APEX	J. Fluxa / D. Rabanus	+56-2-5820-200; -218		Site Safety Liaison Officer; Site Manager
Garching	M. Böcker	6491	213/4	ESO Safety Engineer
La Silla-Paranal Observatory	A. Pizarro	4300		La Silla; Beeper 10
La Silla-Paranal Observatory	A. Saldias	5166		Paranal; radio channel 3
Santiago	S. Garnica	+56-2-208 4254		Guesthouse
Santiago	A. Triat	3162		Vitacura

ESO Garching Safety Committee

Each division at ESO has nominated a Divisional Safety Officer (DSO), sometimes a deputy. Their job description is drafted in "Responsibilities for Divisional Safety Officers" . This group forms the ESO Garching Safety Committee.

The ESO Garching Safety Committee
Name	Tel.	Office	Division	Remarks
Böcker, Michael	6491	220/1	ODG	ESO Safety Engineer
Bristow, Pamela	6286	523	ODG	Office for Science
Eisenbraun, Sabine	6461	108/1	ADD
Kempf, Andreas	6887	A129	MAP
Kümmel, Martin	6817	264	ECF
Lueg-Müller, Dr.	089-3299 1410	IPP H1	(BAD)	physician
Nass, Petra	6707	407	DMO
Puech, Florence	6438	E009	TSD
Quentin, Jutta	6412	E007	TEC
Rupprecht, Gero	6355	327	INS
Sivera, Paola	6755	A037	SDD	contact to ISCE

The Garching Safety Committee meets approximately once a month. The Minutes of their meetings are available. They are not secret but also not intended for distribution outside ESO.

If you have any question or recommendation related to safety in ESO, please address yourself to the DSO of your division.

If you have a proposal how safety at ESO can be improved, please use this form to submit it.

Special Safety Representatives

Safety Representatives/Officers are experts in a recent field within a division. They have:

to keep themselves, the Head of Division and others concerned informed on all aspects of their main subject referring safety,
to cooperate and support the Head of Division in organizing Safety,
to check if the situation they are specialized in meets the regulations.
to organize in cooperation with the Division the information program, exercises and instructions referring their specialization.

There are also specialists for various particular disciplines:

laboratory safety, gas devices: S. Deiries
machine safety: M. Kraus
laser safety: W. Hackenberg
EMC: A. van Kesteren
cryogenics: J.-L. Lizon

A number of staff are available as "First Aiders" and serve as "Floor Marshals". The complete list for Garching of all DSOs, the staff specialized in various disciplines and the First Aiders etc is available on a separate page.

Special areas

Safety aspects of ESO's astronomical instruments
Safety in special areas of the Garching HQ building ( IT Project area, ODT laboratory, Plate Storage, computer room, Auditorium etc.)

ESO offices at IPP

Important information for staff with offices at IPP: Alarms, telephone numbers and safety symbols and a map of the office buildings within IPP including the physician's office.