Advanced Light Source User Advisories
User Advisories are short information sheets on issues concerning users of the ALS. See ALS Publications for information about requesting printed copies.
Note: The advisory procedure and all ALS user advisories are undergoing a complete review that will not be completed until early 2008. Until that time, all current advisories and procedures remain in effect.
Design, Installation, and Operation of Equipment
- ALS User Advisory No. 2: Electrical Cable Wire and Routing Requirements
- ALS User Advisory No. 4: Guidelines for Meeting Seismic Requirements for User Equipment at the ALS
- ALS User Advisory No. 9: Vacuum Policy for User Endstations for Protection of Beamline Components and Storage Ring Vacuum
- ALS User Advisory No. 14: Interlock Requirements for Turbo Pump Systems on ALS Endstations
Electrical Safety
- ALS User Advisory No. 3: Avoiding Overloads on AC Circuits
- ALS User Advisory No. 5: Beamline Electrical Safety Guidelines
- ALS User Advisory No. 17: Electrical Safety During Beamline Bakeouts
Laser Safety
- ALS User Advisory No. 6:
Laser Safety Policies for Class 3b and
Class 4 Lasers
Chemistry Laboratory
- ALS User Advisory No. 11: ALS Chemistry Laboratory--Facilities and Safety Requirements
- ALS User Advisory No. 20: ESG Instrumentation Laboratory 2-457: Chemical Hygiene and Safety Requirements
Pressurized Gases
- ALS User Advisory No. 15: The Use of Health-Hazard Gases at ALS Endstations
Radioactive Materials
- ALS User Advisory No. 16: The Use of Radioactive Materials at the ALS
Biological Materials
- ALS User Advisory No. 18: The Use of Biological Materials at the ALS
User Advisories No Longer Active
- ALS User Advisory No. 1: Affixing Beamline and Endstation Components to the ALS Floor: Location of Grade Beams and Conduits (inforamtionincorporated into Advisory #4 and LSME 936)
- ALS User Advisory No. 7: Receiving and Sending Shipments from the ALS (now in User Guide)
- ALS User Advisory No. 8: Obtaining Supplies On Short Notice (now in Guide)
- ALS User Advisory No. 10: ALS Policy for Exhausting of Mechanical Vacuum Pumps (information updated and incorporated in Advisory No. 14)
- ALS User Advisory No. 12: User Accounts at the ALS (now in User Guide)
- ALS User Advisory No. 13: Inspection of Beamline Work and Repairs