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The Department of Energy's Integrated Safety Management verification audit begins next Monday, April 16. Earlier this month, an all-hands meeting was held in the Administration Building Auditorium to help Lab workers understand what to expect during the audit when workers throughout the Laboratory will be interviewed about the Lab's ISM process and how it applies to their job. On March 28, Laboratory Director John Browne issued an all-employee memo on the upcoming audit. To read the memo, click here. For more information on the verification audit, go to the Integrated Safety Management World Wide Web page. |
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Phil Thullen, deputy director of the Environment, Safety and Health (ESH) Division, Hillard Howard of the Lab's Integrated Safety Management (ISM) Program Office and Kim Thomas, deputy division director for Chemistry (C) Division will be on Los Alamos radio station KRSN at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday. They will talk with KRSN's Mark Bentley about integrated safety management at the Lab and the upcoming ISM verification audit, which begins April 16 and continues through April 24. KRSN can be heard at 1490 AM. |
SBO has new "Buy Northern"
web page
As part of a broader commitment by the Laboratory to improve the economy of Northern New Mexico, the Small Business Program Office (BUS-SBO) recently unveiled a new World Wide Web page.
The "Buy Northern" web page has information about contract opportunities for small businesses in the area interested in doing business with the Lab. It also has information for Lab workers who make purchases for their organization.
The new web site - http://buynorthern.lanl.gov - was launched last year. It contains information on training opportunities and workshops for small business owners conducted by BUS-SBO, updated information on the Northern New Mexico Supplier Alliance, a calendar of Small Business Administration events in New Mexico and the number of "hits" to the site. There's also an electronic mail address, which SBO uses to communicate with small business owners and to send out messages to local businesses in a seven-county region about opportunities to provide goods or services to the Lab.
Goods and services range from computers and office equipment, to furniture, machine shop fabrications, office supplies and furniture, and support services performed for the Lab by Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico and Protection Technology Los Alamos, the Lab's two largest subcontract companies.
The Northern New Mexico Supplier Alliance was formed in 1997 under the name Tri-County Supplier Alliance. The purpose of the alliance is to increase business opportunities for the suppliers in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, with the objective of meeting a portion of the Laboratory's procurement and outsourcing needs.
The new web site was developed in part through an agreement between the Lab and small business owners and operators in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties to increase economic development opportunities, said Small Business Program Office Manager Bennie Gonzales.
"As part of the Lab's Appendix J contract provisions, we are mandated to work closely with businesses in the region to increase buying opportunities at the Lab and promote regional economic development," said Gonzales. "The new web site is providing more, updated information for local businesses as well as helping Lab procurement officers identify those businesses out there who have goods or services the Lab can use."
The new web site was designed by Carla Lujan of SBO.
In addition to the "Buy Northern" web page, SBO also publishes a monthly, hardcopy Buy Northern newsletter for businesses that don't have Internet access. It includes much of the same information, in a condensed version, that is found on the web page. It also includes a short news-style feature story on a local business and the Lab procurement officers who worked closely with that small business owner.
"The Laboratory annually spends millions of dollars purchasing goods and services from businesses in Northern New Mexico and we will continue to do so," said Gonzales. "But there are other things we can do to engage and grow local businesses. This is all part of SBO's plan to continue being a good corporate citizen."
More information about SBO is available by calling 7-4410, 800-472-9861, or writing to sbo@lanl.gov by electronic mail.
--Steve Sandoval
Activists to hand out leaflets, hold silent
vigil at Lab
The Los Alamos Study Group has been granted approval to conduct a silent vigil at Laboratory Technical Area 3 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday. The group will hold the vigil in the parking lot off Pajarito Road, near the Van de Graaff facility.
In addition, the group has received approval to distribute leaflets from 7 to 8:30 a.m., also on Thursday. The number of participants for both the vigil and the leafletting is expected to be fewer than 10. The group plans to hand out their leaflets at the following locations:
Near the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building on the sidewalk nearby the main guard station; outside the Otowi Building, at the bottom of the steps leading to the east entrance and on the sidewalk outside the west entrance; in front of the newspaper racks near the curb outside the main entrance to TA-55; and on the sidewalk near the newspaper racks just northwest of the visitor center and Badge Office area.
Study Group members have agreed not to harass anyone or interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic and to abide by all Lab safety and security requirements.
Personnel in the Lab's Security and Safeguards (S) Division are asking employees to treat the group with courtesy and respect at all times, and to avoid any activities that could compromise the safety of employees or study group members.
"Please remember that you do not have to accept leaflets, but you do need to respect this group's permission to leaflet," said Bill Sprouse of the Office of Security Inquiries (OSI). The Study Group apparently plans to hold weekly silent vigils and hand out leaflets, according to Sprouse.
For more information about the protest, contact OSI at 5-3505.
--Kevin N. Roark
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As a way of teaching out-of-the-box thinking, Arden Bercovitz will resurrect Albert Einstein at 10 a.m. today, in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3. The program is open to the public and is scheduled to be broadcast live on LABNET Channel 9. Bercovitz was originally scheduled to speak at Los Alamos in January. Bercovitz portrays Nobel Prize-wining physicist Albert Einstein to clients within the energy, computer, telecommunication, engineering, finance and education industries. His performance, "Windows of Opportunity," is designed to present invisible diversity through the eyes of Albert Einstein. The program stimulates everyone to stretch their own imagination and learn new ways of thinking, according to information provided by Bercovitz. For more information, see April 3 Daily Newsbulletin. |
DOE Pulse highlights energy laboratories
The latest issue of DOE Pulse is available online. Pulse is an online newsletter about accomplishments at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. The highlights are short, written to be interesting and very understandable.
In addition to the highlights, each issue features two longer articles about a researcher and a multilabcollaborative effort.
Some of the headlines in this issue are "Calling in air support" from Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, "Oldest, farthest supernova" from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Smooth move to HDTV" from Los Alamos National Laboratory and "Shake to modeled quakes" from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
This issue also contains a feature from Sandia's disposable fiber optics for drilling and a profile on Marion Thurnauer from Argonne.
2000 Distinguished Performance Award nominations
The Director's Office is accepting nominations for the 2000 Distinguished Performance Award program. Nominations are for work performed between October 1999 and December 2000.
The deadline to submit nominations is April 23. Nominations should be submitted to Cecilia Olivas in the Director's Office, Mail Stop A100.
Personnel in any job series are eligible for nomination. Nominees may be regular and current, limited term employees at the Laboratory.
Laboratory Director John Browne issued an all employee memo, which includes guidelines for submitting nomination packages. A cover sheet must accompany all submissions.
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Integrated Safety Management audit begins
on April 16
Integrated Safety Management to be discussed
on KRSN radio Thursday
Arden Bercovitz talk
today