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10 November
1999 Open House Tuesday for Y2K Preparedness The millennium will mean merriment to the masses but whether the coincidental Y2K computer bug also brings mayhem to this campus and beyond remains to be seen. To help the campus community start the new year off right, UCSF is hosting a Y2K open house on Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the City Lights Room of Millberry Union. Employees can discuss proper planning and risk assessment, both from a departmental and personal standpoint. Lectures will address UCSF preparations at 10 a.m., personal Y2K preparedness at noon and departmental planning at 1 p.m. Staff will be available to answer questions and to discuss particular situations. Scott Wagner, director of the UCSF Y2K Office, is leading efforts at UCSF to ensure potential problems do not jeopardize UCSF’s patient care, research and educational activities. Wagner is part of a campuswide Y2K contingency planning committee with members from key departments who are represented on the operations committee of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The committee has developed the UCSF Y2K Contingency Plan that addresses many scenarios, such as power outages, disruption of telephone communication, patient overload and illegal activities. "We do not anticipate major problems with either the celebrations or the Y2K bug," Wagner says. "But staff need to take the necessary steps to eliminate unnecessary risk in their departments." The committee is focusing its planning on the riskiest time for UCSF: New Year’s, from about 10 p.m. on Dec. 31 to about 2 a.m. on Jan. 1, and the morning of Monday, Jan. 3, the busy first day of winter quarter instruction. On both days, UCSF will activate the EOC. Employees assigned to work those days should wear their identification badges so that they are plainly visible. UCSF faculty and staff must be ready for many different potential problems and should ask their departmental Y2K coordinators about their specific response measures. To test UCSF’s preparedness, the campus will conduct drills at the departmental level during next week. An EOC drill also will be conducted next week using a blackout and disruption of telephone communication as the baseline scenario. Detailed information on departmental contingency planning is available through the UCSF Y2K website, by calling the Y2K Office at 514-2000. Staff are encouraged to minimize the number of sensitive experiments or other work that could depend on computer systems or utilities during the UCSF holidays on Thursday, Dec. 30, Friday, Dec. 31, and Saturday, Jan. 1. "Security, patient care, and animal care staff can then focus on the risks related to the potential loss of power, high patient load, and disruptive activity without being too concerned about maintaining operational readiness," Wagner says. With an expected million or more revelers coming to San Francisco, UCSF may get extra traffic at the Parnassus campus where people are accustomed to parking to view city-sponsored fireworks on New Year’s Eve. The Ambulatory Care garage will reserve 400 spaces for UCSF and UCSF Stanford Health Care employees to park throughout the weekend. UCSF is focusing on operations risks on Jan. 3, when the University’s normal operations, computer systems, medical equipment and perhaps power will be put to the test, Wagner says. Links: Source: Lisa Cisneros
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