The ISSA Sections on Prevention in the Chemical Industry and on Machine and System Safety have published two new brochures (modules) on the explosion safety of bulk material plants.
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.
The ISSA Electricity Section is proud to announce that the commemorative publication 50 years of International Commitment to Occupational Safety and Health is now available!
Unsafe or even defeated machines cause nearly 30 per cent of all fatal workplace accidents and nearly 20 per cent of all workplace accidents in the European Union. This is too high a prize every affected worker has to pay and also has negative effects and economic losses for the manufacturers and
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