October 23, 2012
The 2012 edition of the Compendium is now available. more
 
October 11, 2012
The Conference Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee and the IRSST cordially invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on the Safety of Industrial Automated Systems (SIAS). more
 
June 19, 2012
The Industrial Technologies 2012 (19-21 June 2012, Aarhus) will take place on June 19-21, 2012, in Aarhus (Denmark). Industrial Technologies 2012, the largest event in the field of industrial technologies (nano, materials and production) will show how innovation can boost European growth and competitiveness. more
 
May 31, 2012
JRC has published a report on Natural Catastrophes: Risk relevance and Insurance Coverage for comments and/or additional data. more
 
May 25, 2012

TÜBİTAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey organises the ‘TurKey Enabling Technologies 2012 – the International Brokerage Event focused on Biotechnology, Advanced Materials, Space, Manufacturing and Processing Technologies.

more
 
May 24, 2012
Tecnalia is pleased to announce the Workshop “MANAGING OCCUPATIONAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH NANOMATERIALS” taking place on 24th May 2012 at Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao (Spain). more
 
April 24, 2012
The 2013 NMP Orientation Paper is now online. more
 
April 17, 2012

In order to understand European Standardization and be able to use it, CEN and CENELEC are organizing the StandarDays on April 17-18, 2012, in Brussels.

more
 
March 29, 2012
The 4th ENERO Workshop on "Boosting and Securing Eco-innovation through new partnerships" will take place in  Brussels on March 29th, 2012. more
 
March 28, 2012
The Healthy Workplaces Campaign Partnership Meeting organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) will take place on March 28th, 2012, in Brussels. more
 
March 12, 2012
ETPIS will organize the next Stakeholder Annual Meeting as well as a SafeFuture workshop dedicated to the SafeEnergy pillar. more
 
January 16, 2012
INERIS scientific report devoted attention to the results of iNTeg-Risk project. See more details in INERIS "Rapport Scientifique 2010/2011". more
 
October 18, 2011
What is a nanomaterial? European Commission brings a common definition of a nanomaterial, the definition will be now applied in all EU-VRi/R-tech projects dealing with nanotechnology (iNTeg-Risk, MUST, PARTICOAT, Nanodevice…) more
Coming events

September 27, 2012
The FIVE Conference will be held in Chicago at the Renaissance Hotel, 27-28 September 2012. more
June 18, 2012
The SRA Europe Annual Meeting 2012 will be held at ETH Zurich, 18-20 June. more
July 18, 2012
The Society for Risk Analysis invites you to join us for the World Congress on Risk 2012. more
October 28, 2012
The NANODEVICE project partners and FIOH invite you to the "International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies" to be held on 28–31 October 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. more
September 11, 2012
The organizing committee of the 6th Working on Safety Conference invites you to Sopot (Poland), on September 11-14th, 2012. more
June 19, 2012
The Industrial Technologies 2012 (19-21 June 2012, Aarhus) will take place on June 19-21, 2012, in Aarhus (Denmark). Industrial Technologies 2012, the largest event in the field of industrial technologies (nano, materials and production) will show how innovation can boost European growth and competitiveness. more
October 11, 2012
The Conference Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee and the IRSST cordially invite you to participate in the 7th International Conference on the Safety of Industrial Automated Systems (SIAS). more
May 25, 2012

TÜBİTAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey organises the ‘TurKey Enabling Technologies 2012 – the International Brokerage Event focused on Biotechnology, Advanced Materials, Space, Manufacturing and Processing Technologies.

more
May 24, 2012
Tecnalia is pleased to announce the Workshop “MANAGING OCCUPATIONAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH NANOMATERIALS” taking place on 24th May 2012 at Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao (Spain). more
 
Welcome to TP on Industrial Safety

Join the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety

You can join ETPIS and participate in its acitivities by applying with the on-line registration form.
After your application, you will receive an invoice and your credentials to access the Member Area of the website and participate in the activities during the current year.


Join a Focus Group of the Industrial Safety Technology Platform

The Technology Platform on Industrial Safety is organized according to the following Focus Groups:
  • FG ADVANCED RISK REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES (FG1)
  • FG METHODOLOGIES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT (FG2)
  • FG STRUCTURAL SAFETY (FG6)
  • FG HUMAN AND ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS (FG3)
  • FG EMERGING RISK (FG5)
  • HUB EDUCATION AND TRAINING (FG4)
  • HUB NANOSAFETY (FG7) => Link
  • HUB RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY
  • HUB TRANSPORT SAFETY & SECURITY
Please contact ETPIS Secretariat if you want to participate in the activities of a specific Focus Group.
(Please note that to join a Focus Group you need to register as a member before)

Partnership with OSHA


ETPIS is a Partner of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign
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ETPIS Strategic Research Agenda

TP Industrial Safety Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is now availabe. To download the short version click here.

The long version of SRA is available here.
 
SafeFuture Initiative
 
SafeFuture Initiative 

Safe innovation for competitive and sustainable Future 

Industrial Safety constitutes a cross-cutting field of knowledge which provides an important added value in all European industry sectors, especially with the aim to develop sustainable technologies and products.
ETPIS, with its vision adopted in 2005, supports the implementation of the EU2020 Strategy applying the following principles:
  • The change in the values of the society towards more safety, environment friendliness and sustainability is an opportunity to develop new products, new services and new activities.
  • Pro-active attitudes with the development of safer and cleaner products and processes right from the beginning directly contribute to sustainable development. This has to be accompanied in the regulatory framework which also has to be compatible with innovation in the industry. Europe cannot afford to have regulations lagging behind innovation. 
  • In a lot of situations, quick progress can be achieved by implementing the best practices or solutions already existing. Therefore, sharing of best practices between industry sectors, between Member States and between Communities and focus on the implementation of existing knowledge may bring great and quick benefits.
  • The European governance of emerging risks related to innovation (e.g. massive use of nano-particles in the industry, adoption of new energy carriers…) has to be updated to give more flexibility while ensuring a high level of protection of the citizens. This reduces also the time to market as demonstrated by the iNTeg-Risk project (http://www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu). Goal-based regulations supported by effective standards should be therefore promoted. 
  • Changes in the society have to be carried out with the support of all stakeholders. The dialogue and participation of the interested parties should be maintained. Therefore, the links with the professional associations and federations, trade unions and with the scientific organizations are very important.
  • The European solutions have to be developed and implemented in an international context because most of the societal challenges faced by Europe are not only European challenges but most of the time they are global. Then the solutions developed need to be elaborated in partnership with other international teams. In this context, common projects with the USA, Japan, China, India, Latin America… are strategic.

To learn more on the SafeFuture Initiative you can download the description of the “SafeFuture Approach” (20 pages document).
ETPIS Active Members can also visit the page of the SafeFuture Workshop, that took place on December 8, 2010 in Brussels (see agenda and the presentations). This workshop enabled ETPIS to collect demands from several industry sectors and stakeholders.

In order to improve the SafeFuture initiative and include as much as possible the view from ETPIS Active Members and other key stakeholders, such as other Technology Platforms, networks and association, you are invited by September 15, 2011:
  • To submit your comments on the general approach, using the Consultation Form
  • To submit topics to be included in the SafeFuture implementation document under preparation (to input the CSF – Horizon 2020 programme), using the Topic Form

The forms have to be sent to info@industrialsafety-tp.org.

 
Last Stakeholder Annual Meeting

March 12th, 2012, in Brussels: 7th Stakeholder Annual Meeting

 

The 7th ETPIS Stakeholder Annual Meeting took place on March 12, 2012, in Brussels, at Fondation Universitaire.

This General Assembly was dedicated to the SafeFuture initiative in the new context set up by the European Commission, with the EU2020 Strategy and the Innovation Union scheme.

In addition, a joint event dedicated to the Safe Energy pillar (part of the SafeFuture initiative) has been organised (the presentations are available here).

Representatives from DG Research & Innovation and DG Enterprise & Industry also presented their "industrial safety" agenda for the next Framework programme "HORIZON 2020" that will be adopted in 2013.
 
The presentations are available here.

 
Seminars, workshops and conferences ETPIS

All information on the seminars, workshops and conferences of ETPIS is available here.

 
Consultations
All the ongoing consultations are available here.