Occupational Health and Safety

The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) group provides expert assistance to CERN activities in matters of Safety, monitoring and reducing hazards and incidents on site, and ensuring compliance with both CERN and Host State health and safety regulations.

View the full mandate here. The services OHS provides are listed below. (Page uniquement en anglais)

In case of emergency or incident, call:

+41 22 76 74444

List of OHS Services

General Safety & Equipment Integrity

Accident and incident follow-up
Incident report analysis and statistics
Building pollutants and risk management
Asbestos, Lead, etc.
Chemical and Gas Safety
Inspections, inventory, advice
Electrical Safety
Inspections and advice
Event Safety Support
Advice for events on the CERN campus
Laser Safety
Inspections, advice
Mechanical Safety

Lifts, Tools, Pressure & Cryogenics
Non-Ionising Radiation
Magnetic fields, electric fields, radio
to low-UV radiations
Oxygen Deficiency Hazard Risk Management
Advice and design
Safety for Works and Services
Advice, site visits
Visit Safety Support
For guided and protocol visits
Working Conditions
For anyone on the CERN site

Safety Design and Research

Acoustic & Noise risk
Noise mitigation and risk management
Fire Safety
Safe design, evacuation, modelling
Future Beam Facilities & Air Quality
FCC, Einstein telescope, CAiMIRA
Structural and Earthquake Engineering
For all CERN activities and collaborations
Cable and Ageing Research
Fire & radiation resistance, compliance, degradation

Occupational Health Service

Occupational Health Service
CERN Medical service, infirmary, psychologists

Transversal Services

Project and Experiment Safety Support (PESS)
For the planning, design and implementation
of projects or experiments at CERN