Information for Shift Workers

Shift leaders

Shift summaries: please maintain a detailed log of activities during your shift in the form of single halog entry. You cannot write too much! Anything that might have appeared in the paper logbook in the good old days before electronic logkeeping should appear in your shift report. Include run information, even for bad runs, and correlate the runs and other activities with the run plan. Note that the present version of halog suppresses spaces and blank lines. You can make readable tables by using periods (.) to enforce formatting.
Special problems with equipment, data acquistion, etc. should be logged in separate halog entries with useful keywords so that run coordinators and spokespersons can be alerted to problems during the shift, not just at the end when the shift report appears. Include the halog entry number in your shift summary, just like you would have included a page reference in a traditional logbook.
Replay: make sure that someone replays data online to verify that it is good. We have already had some periods where several hours were wasted due to a lack of quality control.
Think about what you are doing -- the run plan may be detailed, but it is not perfect!
Checklist: make sure that someone performs the shift checklist. It does sometimes catch problems.

Run sheets: use the paper run sheets. It is not sufficient to rely upon automatic halog entries for run start and end. Fill out run sheets completely.
Magnet screens: include an image of the magnet screen in the halog whenever fields are changed. This is especially important after polarity changes.
Dhist: keep an eye on dhist. It should be checked at least once during long runs or every 20 minutes during sequences of short runs.

Created by: James J. Kelly
Last revised: May 20, 2000