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March 9-10 NIST Safety Commission Meeting Agenda

This meeting will take place in Boulder, Colorado. Times listed here are in Mountain Time.

Thursday, March 9, 2023
8:30 amCall to Order and Roll Call
Dr. Mark Peters – Chair, NIST Safety Commission
8:35 amAnnual Ethics Briefing
Rebecca Hermanowicz – Attorney-Advisor, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
8:50 amNIST Director's Update
Dr. Laurie Locascio – Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director
9:05 amDiscussion
9:15 amNIST 2023 Safety Culture Survey
Crystal Cannan – Director, Workplace Training and Safety Services, National Safety Council
9:45 amDiscussion
10:15 amBreak
10:30 amListening Session 1 – Discussion with Boulder Technical Division Chiefs
11:30 amListening Session 2 – Discussion with NIST Boulder Laboratory Director and NIST Boulder Operations Director
12:00 pmLunch
1:00 pmListening Session 3 – Discussion with Members of the Boulder Safety, Health, and Environment Division
2:00 pmListening Session 4 – Discussion with Boulder Researchers on Safety Risk Analysis for Hazardous Materials, Processes, and Conditions
3:00 pmBreak
3:15 pmListening Session 5 – Discussion with NIST Associates
4:15 pmWorking Session
4:45 pmPublic Comment
5:00 pmAdjourn

 

Friday, March 10, 2023
8:30 amCall to Order
Dr. Mark Peters – Chair, NIST Safety Commission
8:35 am

Lab Tour: Wineland's Nobel and its Legacy

In 2012, Dave Wineland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his advances in laser cooling and trapping ions. Ten years later, this work has rapidly advanced quantum computing, precision timekeeping, and more.

Host: Dr. John Bollinger – Physicist and Group Leader, Ion Storage Group, Physical Measurement Laboratory

9:15 amTravel Time
9:30 amUnrehearsed Discussion with Researchers in Multiple Labs
12:10 pmLunch
12:50 pm

Subcommittees – Findings and Observations

2:20 pmBreak
2:30 pmWorking Session
4:00 pmAdjourn

Download a PDF version of the agenda.

Created February 15, 2023, Updated March 13, 2025