Dear Mac,
Hi, I think it would be a good idea to re-activate the star(color) rating
which was used long time ago in CLAS. This tells people who has how many
experiences in recent history(6 months). Especially, RC and PDL could have
a caution in advance.
Of course, I agree with your conclusion. Inexperience people should have
more trainings before taking their own shifts.
Sincerely yours,
Kijun
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, burkert wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:42:39 -0500
> From: burkert <burkert@jlab.org>
> To: hallb@jlab.org
> Subject: owl shifts
>
> Dear Colleagues, please find below the observation of Mac Mestayer
> regarding staffing of owl shifts. I fully share Mac's conclusions.
> Volker Burkert
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Dear CLAS Collaborator;
>
> We have had several instances lately in which shift leaders
> have demonstrated a lack of training or knowledge of CLAS
> operations. Because of this, we have lost some beam time and
> have unneccesarily paged our experts and run coordinators.
> This problem is especially important for the owl shift.
>
> We propose several remedies:
> 1) many of the owl-shift leaders are relatively inexperience
> students or post-docs. It is important that the senior members
> at each institution communicate with these persons to determine
> whether they feel competent running the experiment. Our younger
> people take a disproportionate number of these shifts; the senior
> people must take responsibility for their readiness.
> 2) documentation is scattered and sometime out-of-date. We
> remind you of the primary sources of information:
> - the elogbook. Read it regularly, especially before taking shifts.
> - the shift-taker's manuals: linked under the Hall-B page.
> - the current run information page; also linked under the Hall-B page.
> It is the system experts' responsibility to keep these pages up-to-date.
> Inform them of any deficiencies.
> 3) we may need a "super-expert" status level which would be required
> to be the owl shift leader. This requires a by-law and we ask you
> all to consider this.
>
> Your ideas and feedback are encouraged.
>
> "mestayer@jlab.org", (757)-269-7252
>
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