ESS Personnel Safety Systems Test Stand

Abstract

Providing and assuring safe conditions for personnel is a key parameter required to operate the European Spallation Source (ESS). The Personnel Safety System (PSS) primarily prevent workers from the facility’s ionising radiation hazards, but also identify as well as mitigate against all other hazards such as high voltage and oxygen depletion. The PSS test stand is being developed in the ESS Protection Systems (PS) lab. It will be used for simulation, testing and verification purposes of any system, equipment, function and procedure developed by the PSS team. At the later stage of the project it will facilitate preparation for operation, maintenance and periodical testing of PSS, and hence it should be as similar as possible to real system. This paper describes the ESS Personnel safety systems’ test bench design, devices, and implemented functions.