Vol. 58 - No. 34 October 1, 2004 Three BNL Organizations Achieve OHSAS 18001 Registration BNL is first DOE Lab to have components recommended for such status n Friday, September 24, for C-A, it was agreed that all O following a three-day re- three organizations should be view by NSF, an external certi- included in the pilot registra- fying organization, BNL’s Cen- tion project. tral Fabrication Services Divi- Lab Director Praveen Chaud- sion (CFS), Collider Accelerator hari formed the Occupational Department (C-A), and Plant Health Safety Assessment Series Engineering Division (PE) — (OHSAS) 18001 Pilot Project were recommended for OHSAS Team, led by Pat Williams of the 18001 registration. BNL is now Facilities & Operations Director- the only Lab in the DOE com- ate, to help guide the project. The plex to have components of its team’s other members include operations achieve such status. Assistant Laboratory Director for Roger Stoutenburgh The OHSAS 18001 project Environment, Safety, Health & started about eight months ago, Quality (ESH&Q) James Tarpin- when PE, C-A, and CFS, which ian; Steven Hoey, ESH&Q; Assis- have the largest number of Lab tant Laboratory Director for Fa- employees routinely at risk of cilities & Operations Andrew injury in their day-to-day work, McNerney; Edward Lessard, C-A; met to discuss safety improve- Steven Stein, Quality Programs & D0710904 ment initiatives. At that time, Services Office; and Jane Korop- it was suggested that the orga- sak, Community, Education, Gathered with Lab Director Praveen Chaudhari (front, right) are many of the leaders of the recently nizations model their occupa- Government & Public Affairs. achieved OHSAS 18001 registration: members of the OHSAS 18001 Pilot Project Team Steven Hoey tional safety and health man- Said Williams, “With support (back, left) and Jane Koropsak (back, right), and (front, from left) Steven Stein, James Tarpinian, and agement system (OSHMS) using and commitment from Thomas Patricia Williams; and managers of the three organizations now registered, (center back, from left) OHSAS 18001 specifications, Lambertson, CFS Manager; Derek Edward Murphy, Thomas Lambertson, and Derek Lowenstein. Not present are: Deputy Lab Director for since it allows for registration Lowenstein, C-A Chair; and Ed- Operations Michael Bebon, and Project Team members Edward Lessard and Andrew McNerney. similar to the way BNL’s envi- ward Murphy, PE Manager, the ronmental management system employees in each of the three Safety & Health Management mitment to continuing that co- efforts. We hope to have the was registered under ISO 14001. organizations and the ESH&Q Systems. I believe the renewed operative effort.” entire Laboratory registered to OHSAS 18001, widely ac- Directorate, we achieved recom- awareness gained from this ex- As Chaudhari noted, “I know this high standard in the near knowledged as offering one of mendation for registration in ercise will result in improved that, in addition to the OHSAS future, just as we are under ISO the best guidelines available for record time! Employees, supervi- safety performance. team and managers of the three 14001. The OHSAS 18001 re- safety standards, is in harmony sors, managers and safety profes- “Another benefit from the pi- pilot organizations, there are quirements will help us move with the Integrated Safety Man- sionals worked together to evalu- lot project,” continued Will- many others who have put in towards our goal: that every em- agement system that was al- ate the risks associated with rou- iams, “was sharing best safety long hours preparing for this ployee, visitor, and contractor ready in place on site. Since CFS tine work and made improve- management practices across registration. I want you all to returns home safely at the end and PE provide support services ments to our Occupational each organization and the com- know that we appreciate your of the day.” — Jane Koropsak Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley Gives Pegram Lectures, 10/19, 20 ichard E. Smalley, winner of sustain a modern lifestyle for made with molecular perfec- Nobel Laureate Rthe 1996 Nobel Prize in the billions of people in the de- tion, can exhibit revolutionary Richard Smalley will Chemistry for the discovery of veloping world, 50 TW of clean electrical, thermal and me- present the 2004 a structure of carbon atoms power would be needed. chanical properties on the na- George Pegram known as a “buckyball,” will How will we get the 10 to 50 nometer scale. In this lecture, Lectures on give a series of two lectures at TW of new power? How will we Smalley will discuss the basic October 19 and 20, BNL. On Tuesday, October 19, transport this energy, store it, science underlying the exotic sponsored by at 4 p.m., Smalley will present and transform it? Can the new chemical and physical proper- Brookhaven Science Associates. a lecture on “Our Energy Chal- energy be discovered and used ties, as well as the methods of lenge,” and on Wednesday, Oc- soon enough to avoid the hard production, purification, analy- tober 20, at 11 a.m., he will economic times, terrorism, war, sis, and assembly of buckytubes speak about “The Brave New and human suffering that is for solving real-world techno- World of Buckytubes.” Spon- likely to occur as we fight over logical problems. sored by Brookhaven Science the dwindling oil and gas re- Richard Smalley earned his Associates through the George serves on the planet? bachelor’s degree in 1965 from nology Laboratory. B. Pegram Lectureship Series, in Energy may very well be the the University of Michigan and His research has led to which distinguished scholars single most critical challenge fac- his master’s degree in 1971, and the start of a new examine topics of both scien- ing humanity in this century, and Ph.D. in 1973, both from Prince- company, Carbon tific and general interest, the Smalley believes that nanotech- ton University, with an inter- Nanotechnologies, lectures are open to the public nology will be the key to solving vening four-year period in in- Inc., which is cur- and will be held in Berkner Hall. it. Nanotechnology – technology dustry as a research chemist rently developing Visitors to the Lab age 16 and executed on the scale of bil- with the Shell Chemical Com- large-scale produc- over must bring a photo ID. lionths of a meter – makes pos- pany. During his postdoctoral tion and applications In his first lecture on Octo- sible the creation of materials research years at the University of buckytubes. ber 19, Smalley will explore the with new properties, perhaps of Chicago, Smalley pioneered Besides receiving difficult problem of supplying leading to new ways to make, a powerful technique in chemi- the Nobel Prize, the world with energy in the transmit and store energy. cal physics called supersonic Smalley has been 21st century and beyond. In In his October 20 lecture, beam laser spectroscopy. came a professor in the Physics honored with numerous profes- order to maintain adequate en- Smalley will discuss “bucky- Smalley joined Rice Univer- Department, and, in 2002, he sional awards including the ergy supplies for the world’s ex- tubes,” elongated buckyballs sity in 1976, and was named to was appointed University Pro- 1992 Lawrence Award, the 1996 panding population, scientists that are essentially a new high- the Gene and Norman Hacker- fessor. From 1996 to 2002, Franklin Medal, and the 2002 will have to find a new, eco- tech polymer that can conduct man Chair of Chemistry in Smalley was founding director Glenn T. Seaborg Medal. He is a nomical energy source that can electricity. Experiments and 1982. He was founder of the of the Center for Nanoscale Sci- member of the National Acad- provide at least 10 terawatts theory have shown that these Rice Quantum Institute in 1979, ence and Technology at Rice, emy of Sciences and the Ameri- (TW) of clean power on a sus- tubes can be either metals or and served as the chair from and he is now director of the can Academy of Arts and Sci- tainable basis. To achieve and semiconductors and, when 1986 to 1996. In 1990, he be- university’s Carbon Nanotech- ences. — Diane Greenberg Inside Story Introducing BNL’s new internal home page ‘@Brookhaven TODAY’ and video program ‘Take 5’ (page 2) The Bulletin October 1, 2004 Calendar New on BNL’s Internal Home Page: @brookhaven TODAY, Take 5 his week marks the debut of the ner and the local navigation of Laboratory Events TLaboratory’s new internal home list on the left-hand side. • The BERA Sales Office is located in page and a redesigned website. The Berkner Hall and is open weekdays from 9 new internal (intranet) page, Search Function a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information on BERA events, contact Andrea Dehler, Ext. “@brookhaven TODAY”, is similar Web usability studies show 3347; or Chris Carter, Ext. 2873. to the old design, but has an im- that a large percentage of users •Additional information for Hospitality Committee events can be found at the proved template and new content will bypass navigation links and Recreation Bldg. and at the laundry, both and features. Outsiders will see go straight for the search func- located in the apartment area. tion to find what they’re look- • Contact names are provided for most BNL’s external home page un- events for more information. changed (to see the external page, ing for. The Google-powered • Calendar events flagged with an asterisk scroll down the left-hand column of BNL search engine is accessible (*) have an accompanying story in this week’s Bulletin. the internal home page and click on from a consistently placed input BNL External Home Page). But the box just below the page banner — EACH WEEK — new internal page is expected to be and global navigation bar.