Due to the great response to this year’s Festival and some requests for a little more time, we are extending the deadline for entry submissions until 31 March 2023.

On 6 February 2023 Türkiye and Syria were struck by one the strongest earthquakes in the region’s history. In Türkiye alone, more than 13,5 million people have been affected by the catastrophe, and in both countries, over 40.000 deaths have been confirmed to this day.

In 2023 the ISSA Special Commission on Prevention kicks off its webinar series “Let’s talk about OSH – Have you ever…?”. The first edition of this series will focus on the “near misses” in occupational safety and health (OSH) and is with the contribution of the Prevention Sections on Electricity

Registration is now open for the International Media Festival for Prevention 2023! Register now and submit your films and multimedia productions about safety and health at work.

From 7–9 June 2022 the XIII International Symposium on Electrical Safety (SISE) was held in Bogotá, Colombia. 110 attendees from nine different Latin American countries participated in the event. In 2021, the Symposium only took place virtually due to COVID-19-related restrictions.

Between 6 and 10 June 2022, the ISSA Electricity Section and BG ETEM (German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the energy, textile and media products sectors) welcomed a delegation of the Association of Electricity Distribution System Operators (Elder) from Türkiye for a study visit to

During a Board meeting of the ISSA Electricity Section on 21 April 2022 the former Secretary General, Dr. Jens Jühling, was elected new President in succession to Ms Hesse-Spötter. Ms Hesse-Spötter who had been President of the Section since 2017 resigned from the Board last year due to a change of

The ISSA Section for Electricity supports two upcoming seminars on Functional Safety and Validation, which are planned to take place in May 2022 in Detroit, USA and Toronto, Canada.

The German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) has published a document with instructions and information regarding occupational health and safety as related to work tasks performed in or on sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆) plants, systems and equipment.

On 23 November 2021, the 14th Occupational Health and Safety Forum took place in Luxembourg, for the first time as a virtual event. The ISSA Electricity Section cohosted the event along with several Luxembourgian partners (AAA, INDR, UEL) as well as the German BG ETEM.