International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies 

The NANODEVICE project partners and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health invite you to the "International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies" to be held on 28–31 October 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

The goal of the SENN2012 Congress is to:

• Summarize and share the latest knowledge on the safety of engineered nanomaterials and nano-related technologies

• Produce solutions to the safety challenges related to engineered nanomaterials and nanotechnologies
• Enable commercial opportunities for safe use of these materials and technologies. 

Important dates:
Deadline for submitting abstracts 1 April 2012
Deadline for early registration 30 June 2012 

The Congress programme consists of further education lectures on 28 Oct, keynote presentations and free communications and an exhibition on 29 to 31 Oct.

See updated programme, all keynote speakers are now confirmed http://www.ttl.fi/senn2012

The FIVE Conference will be held in Chicago at the Renaissance Hotel, 27-28 September 2012.

This event will bring together expertise in the field of Fires in vehicles  for 2 days of presentations and exhibits. The previous conference in Gothenburg in September 2010 was a great success with more than 230 delegates from 20 countries.

If you are interested in taking part in FIVE 2012 and you are welcome to submit a manuscript for presentation. Manuscripts  will be reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract of not more than two pages. Manuscript abstracts should be submitted to the Secretariat by email (five@sp.se) by 1st December 2011.

For more information see Call for Papers or visit the Conference website (www.fireinvehicles.com) where you can find Author instructions.

If you have any questions you are also welcome to contact five@sp.se.

WOS2012 “Towards Safety Through Advanced Solutions”

Workingonsafety.net is an international network of decision-makers, researchers and professionals responsible for the prevention of accidents at work. The organizing committee of the 6th Working on Safety Conference invites you to Sopot (Poland), on September 11-14th, 2012.

The network seeks to bring accident prevention experts together in order to facilitate the exchange of information and experience between different countries and sectors. The Working on Safety network attracts researchers, regulators, inspection bodies, safety professionals and other experts in this field of research and policy-making. It consists of an Internet platform (www.workingonsafety.net) and a biannual conference.

Further information about this event is avalaible here.  

ETPIS is a partner of this event, and Olivier Salvi, ETPIS Secretary General  will attend this conference and present the SafeFuture initiative.

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 15 February 2012.
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2012.
Deadline for the receipt of full papers and early registration: 1 June 2012.
Deadline for the receipt of ppt presentations: 15 August 2012.

The Society for Risk Analysis invites you to join us for the World Congress on Risk 2012: Risk and Development in a Changing World.

This event will take place from Wednesday, 18 July, to Friday, 20 July 2012, at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia.

Further information: http://www.sra.org/worldcongress2012.php

The SRA Europe Annual Meeting 2012 will be held at ETH Zurich, 18 - 20 June.

The conference brochure can be downloaded here.

The SRA-Europe Conference 2012 is open to all interested researchers and experts in the various field of risk analysis. Participants from industry are welcome.

Further details: http://www.sraeurope.org/home.aspx?pag=1001

Cyprus Safety Platform
One Day Workshop in Critical Infrastructures Protection

The Cyprus Safety Platform organises a One Day Workshop in Critical Infrastructures Protection on Wednesday 22nd February 2012, in the Cultural Center of European University Cyprus, in Engkomi, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Every day accidents and disasters occur on a small or large scale. These events may have short, medium and long-term impacts on individuals, groups, or the society as a whole.  
A common feature of these accidents and disasters is the lack of knowledge of the conditions that may initiate them and their potential impact on life safety, property and the environment.  This knowledge is essential in developing measures to minimize the probability of their initiation and also to mitigate their damages.

For this reason they propose the creation of the Safety Platform to:

• Promote research on safety
• Initiate a two-way communication between social and professional bodies with academics to create a research agenda that responds to real problems
• Transfer of existing knowledge and knowledge from future research projects from academia to social and professional bodies
• Promote a safety culture in the society.  
• The areas of interest of the Safety Platform are multidimensional as is the science of safety. It includes:
• Safety and health of workers (physical and psychological),
• Safety in the built environment during the design, construction and use phases,
• Protection of the environment from chemical and other hazards
• Proper use of safety technologies
• Study of the socio-economic impact of accidents and disasters

The safety platform during its life will serve as a "bridge" between industry, academic and research institutes and the state with the purpose of:

• Providing a forum for the industry and society to reveal and discuss their safety problems and concerns.  
• Creating a research agenda that focuses on the safety problems facing industry and society
• Transferring knowledge and technology to society, industry and government, and
• Assisting government bodies to take necessary measures to implement the findings and recommendations.  

Professor George Hadjisophocleous from Carleton University and Dr Frank Guldenmund from TU Delft will deliver Keynote Speeches.

Participation to the Workshop is free of charge; arrangements have been made with local hotels for overseas participants. For further information please contact Dr George Boustras, European University Cyprus at g.boustras@euc.ac.cy or safety@euc.ac.cy.

4th iNTeg-Risk Conference 2012 "Managing Early Warnings - what and how to look for?" Stuttgart, Germany on May 7-8, 2012 in conjunction with iNTeg-Risk education courses (“European Master of Risk Management and Engineering”) and OECD workshop “Space Technologies, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURES” and “China-Europe Risk Forum” Venue: Maritim Hotel Stuttgart Seidenstraße 34 70174 Stuttgart Germany http://maritim.com/en/hotels/germany/hotel-stuttgart The Maritim Hotel Stuttgart is located in the centre of the city nearby the main railway station. The 4th iNTeg-Risk conference is an excellent opportunity for project partners to communicate their results to the “outside world” and an opportunity for interested professionals, not participating in the iNTeg-Risk project, to learn about the project and its numerous results (150 deliverables already available) (http://integrisk.eu-vri.eu). The preliminary program of the conference comprises: May 2-5, 2012 Introduction to Risk Management (Risk and Safety Management) This course (I-R1 INTRO) belongs to the series of courses of iNTeg-Risk (WP4.10). It is a part of the certified and accredited system of SHB (Steinbeis University Berlin) of academic and professional education. Participation: Open, registration details will follow   May 4, 2012 OECD Workshop: OECD Space Technologies, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURES A specialists’ meeting on “How space technologies can enhance our possibilities to deal with risks”. Participation: By invitation, open for project partners and members of EU-VRi   May 6, 2012 Welcome reception An ideal occasion to meet people attending the conference in the friendly atmosphere of the Maritim Hotel Stuttgart! Participation: Open, registration details will follow   May 7-8, 2012 Main Conference The results obtained in the project so far will be presented more in detail, including iNTeg-Risk early warning system RiskEars, emerging risk mapping (RiskAtlas of iNTeg-Risk), emerging risk management framework (iNTeg-Risk ERMF), emerging risk monitoring (iNTeg-Risk RiskClock and RiskTweet), emerging risk communication and methods and tools for emerging risk analysis. Participation: Open registration (see below)   May 8, 2012 Project General Assembly (GA) Annual meeting of iNTeg-Risk project partners summarizing project issues and making the important project-related decisions. Participation: Project partners only   May 9, 2012 International Advisory Board (IAB) Meeting The annual meeting of the Board will be the occasion to review project results and implementation of the IAB-recommendations of 2011 Participation: IAB members   May 10-11, 2012 China-Europe Risk Forum An occasion to meet Chinese colleagues interested in risks. Participation: Open, registration details will follow This year, the Conference will be focused on the issues dealing with management of early warnings as well as with multiple and interconnected emerging risks of New Technologies and presentation of the current iNTeg-Risk results. The Conference will be accompanied by a specialized OECD workshop and Europe-China Risk Forum. This will be an additional opportunity for the entire risk community to share experiences on risk governance, communication, analysis and management and to enjoy the pleasant ambience of Hotel Maritim and Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart. In order to ensure that the most interesting and relevant topics are included in the program of the Main Conference, we kindly invite you to communicate your interest by registering and submitting an abstract (200 words) at http://eu-vri.eu/fwlink/?LinkID=335 before February 10, 2012 The registration for the Main Conference is open at: http://eu-vri.eu/fwlink/?LinkID=349 Further details can be found on the website: http://eu-vri.eu/fwlink/?LinkID=350. For possible queries, please, feel free to contact us at integrisk-conference4@eu-vri.eu. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Stuttgart. iNTeg-Risk Conference Committee and iNTeg-Risk Project Team

INERIS scientific report devoted attention to the results of iNTeg-Risk project. See more details in INERIS "Rapport Scientifique 2010/2011".

	EU-VRi and Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies have published a new brochure "Risk - we care®!" containing interesting information, events and projects about the past 10 years of R-Tech and the past 5 years of EU-VRi. For downloading the brochure please use the following link: http://www.eu-vri.eu/filehandler.ashx?file=9243

Transportation of Hazardous Substances: Perspectives and state of the art two years after the Viareggio accident

ESRA Technical Chapter on Land Transportation and University of Bologna will organize on December 1st 2011 in Bologna (Italy) an international workshop on the transportation of hazardous materials in Europe.

The motivation of the workshop starts from the perspective of the Viareggio accident. More than two years ago, on June 29th 2009, a freight train carrying 14 LPG railtankers derailed near to the Viareggio railway station, causing the more severe railway accident involving hazardous materials transportation recorded in Europe in the last 40 years.

The lessons learnt form the Viareggio accident call for a discussion of the research needs concerning safety in the land transportation of hazardous substances in Europe. In recent years, several breakthroughs were obtained in methods for routing, in risk management strategies, and in models for hazard and consequence assessment of hazardous materials transportation. The workshop aims at tracing the state of the art in the field, identifying research needs and opportunities. Several selected contributions from academia and control authorities of different European countries were collected. An extended discussion and a final wrap-up session will also be organized, to contribute to the definition of a shared research agenda in the field.

The event is organized also with the support of the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety (ETPIS), CISAP and the CONPRICI University Consortium.

Preliminary registration to the workshop is kindly required. Registration fees of 50,00 Euro are required (25,00 Euro for Ph.D. Students).

Further information is available at the following links:

- agenda

- venue

- Registration form

Following the approved liaison between ISO 31000 and EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk (see news entry), a discussion between the iNTeg-Risk Project Coordinator and the CEO of EU-VRi, A. Jovanovic, and the Moderator of the LinkedIn ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard Group, A. Dali, took place.

One of the main results, so far, would be the involvement of the EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk partners into the first global survey of ISO 31000–Risk Management Principle and Guidelines set to kick off on the 17th of October this year. The aim of the survey is to gauge how ISO 31000 is perceived by risk practitioners across all sectors and to provide input for the preparation of the ISO 31004 guide, due out in 2013.

Members of more than 70 risk management associations around the world are invited to participate in the study which is being run through an initiative by the LinkedIn discussion group on ISO 31000. Issued in November 2009, ISO 31000 provides principles and generic guidelines on risk management. It can be used by any public, private or community enterprise, association, group or individual and is not specific to any industry or sector. "This is the first time the global risk management community active across all fields, sectors, industries and services is being invited to participate in an international survey on ISO 31000. It is a great opportunity to share your thoughts and concerns about the ISO standard on risk management" said Alex Dali.

The survey will run from

Oct. 17, 2011 to Nov. 30, 2011. (extended deadline)

 

You will be encouraged to participate through EU-VRi/iNTeg-Risk sites or the LinkedIn group. You can join the discussion forum preparing the survey at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=1834592.

We encourage your participation and will gladly support it.

Workshop on Safe-Infrastructures

PESI is organizing, on behalf of ETPIS, a technical Workshop on Safe-Infrastructures. This European Workshop will be hosted by TECNALIA in Bilbao (Spain) on November 14th-15th, 2011.

Safe-Infrastructure is one of the pillars of the SafeFuture Initiative. Infrastructures such as industrial facilities, bridges, tunnels, railway system, power plants are reaching the term of their designed life time, any safety consequences of life extension have to be clearly analyzed (risk informed decision); on the other hand, infrastructures built today or to be built in the near future should integrate in their design solutions that guarantee economical performance for a long time in a quickly changing world without compromise on safety and sustainability (further information on Safe Future is available here).

The PESI programme committee, formed by +20 experts from industry and RTOs, has developed a more detailed R&D Roadmap for Safe-Infrastructures pillar.

You are kindly invited to join the Workshop and participate in the important revision of this roadmap for safer and more secure Infrastructures. One of the Workshop main goals is to present and widely discuss such an initial roadmap as a strategic working document for the new EU Research and Innovation programmes inside HORIZON 2020. The draft brochure is available here.

Attendance to the Workshop on Safe-Infrastructures is on the basis of self-payment of travel expenses but organization (PESI & Tecnalia will support workshop expenses, meals included). Feel you free also to join the accompanying programme for Speakers and Guests (visit to Bilbao city center and Gugghemheim Museum, so as the evening dinners).

If you have any question related to this workshop, you can contact the Technical Secretary of PESI, Javier Larrañeta, at the following email address javier.larraneta@tecnalia.com.

The NANODEVICE project partners and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health invite you to the "International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies" to be held on 28–31 October 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.

The goal of the SENN2012 Congress is to:
* Summarize and share the latest knowledge on the safety of engineered nanomaterials and nano-related technologies
* Produce solutions to the safety challenges related to engineered nanomaterials and nanotechnologies
* Enable commercial opportunities for safe use of these materials and technologies.

The Congress programme consists of further education lectures on 28 Oct, keynote presentations and free communications and an exhibition on 29-31 Oct.

See updated programme, all keynote speakers are now confirmed http://www.ttl.fi/senn2012

Further information is available at the following link: http://www.ttl.fi/senn2012

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - PRESS RELEASE What is a "nanomaterial"? European Commission breaks new ground with a common definition Brussels, 18 October 2011 – "Nanomaterials" are materials whose main constituents have a dimension of between 1 and 100 billionth of a metre, according to a recommendation adopted by the European Commission today. The announcement marks an important step towards greater protection for citizens, clearly defining which materials need special treatment in specific legislation. European Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said: "I am happy to say that the EU is the first to come forward with a cross-cutting designation of nanomaterials to be used for all regulatory purposes. We have come up with a solid definition based on scientific input and a broad consultation. Industry needs a clear coherent regulatory framework in this important economic sector, and consumers deserve accurate information about these substances. It is an important step towards addressing any possible risks for the environment and human health, while ensuring that this new technology can live up to its potential." Nanomaterials are already being used in hundreds of applications and consumer products ranging from toothpaste to batteries, paints and clothing. Developing these innovative substances is an important driver for European competitiveness, and they have significant potential for progress in areas like medicine, environmental protection and energy efficiency. But as uncertainties remain about the risks they pose, a clear definition is needed to ensure that the appropriate chemical safety rules apply. The definition will help all stakeholders including industry associations, as it brings coherence to the variety of definitions that are currently in use in different sectors. The definition will be reviewed in 2014 in the light of technical and scientific progress. The recommendation also delivers on a commitment made in 2009 to the European Parliament to issue a single definition that is broadly applicable to all EU legislation concerned by nanomaterials. The definition adopted today is based on an approach considering the size of the constituent particles of a material, rather than hazard or risk. The wording describes a nanomaterial as "a natural, incidental or manufactured material containing particles, in an unbound state or as an aggregate or as an agglomerate and where, for 50% or more of the particles in the number size distribution, one or more external dimensions is in the size range 1 nm – 100 nm." The definition is based on scientific advice from the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC). A draft version of the definition was subject to a public consultation. Background Nanomaterials are currently governed by a variety of legislative instruments at EU and national level. However, definitions have been developed on a case-by-case basis and vary across sectors, creating unnecessary burdens for industry and hampering public debate about risks and benefits of these substances. This recommendation gives EU legislators a legal reference for nanomaterials, when adopting new or implementing existing legislation. The experience of the first registration deadline (30 November 2010) under REACH, the EU's overarching chemicals policy, showed that companies needed more clarity about their obligations with regard to nanomaterials. REACH has a key role to play in generating information about the properties of nanomaterials as chemical substances. With the adopted definition it will be easier for companies to assess their registration dossiers and determine exactly when they should consider their products as nanomaterials. Further information: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/nanotech/index.htm MEMO/11/704

Contacts: Joe Hennon (+32 2 295 35 93) Monica Westeren (+32 2 299 18 30)

The city of Donostia ‐ San Sebastián hosts the bi‐annual meeting of PRO‐FACTORY PLUS umbrella, and taking the advantage of the event BANTEC company together to TECNALIA Research Center and supported by CDTI organize a Matchmaking focused on "Sustainable Production".

The purpose of this event is to hold a cooperation meeting that provides an excellent opportunity for all enterprises from any industry related to manufacturing technologies to meet new partners with whom they can interact in EUREKA PRO‐FACTORY PLUS Projects. 

 This event will provide participants with both the presentation of ideas for projects and seeking new technological partners and / or commercials for joint participation in European R & D projects, specifically for EUREKA PRO‐FACTORY PLUS (hereinafter PF+). 

Participation in this event is free but registration is required through the website enabled for the event. http://www.b2match.eu/profactoryplus2011

For any queries or questions about the event feel free to send your questions to the following email address: profactoryplus2011@cdti.es

Following Stage 1 of the EMRP Call 2011 (4 February 2011), Stage 2 is now open from 20 June to 3 October 2011 inviting proposals for Joint Research Projects (JRPs) and associated Researcher Excellence Grants (REGs).

At this stage, your stakeholders have the opportunity:

- to apply for Researcher Excellence Grants which provide financial support for an experienced researcher who is capable of making a substantial contribution through research activities relevant to the JRP objectives; and

- to participate as unfunded JRP-Partners in a JRP through which your stakeholders can directly benefit in the output of the research.

For further information please go to http://www.emrponline.eu/call2011/stage2.html

CISAP5 Secretariat has announced that "the 5th International Conference on Safety and Environment in the Process Industry", organized by AIDIC (The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering), will be held on June 3-6, 2012, Milan, Italy.

Details on the conference and the call for paper may be found at http://www.aidic.it/cisap5

The extended deadline for abstract submission is September 30, 2011
http://www.aidic.it/cisap5/abstractsubmission.html

CISAP-5 Conference will provide a successful forum on process safety, risk assessment and HSE management.
The conference provides a unique opportunity to share and gain experience on "hot" topics in emerging risk assessment and management, as the assessment of accident scenarios caused by natural hazards and the safety of energy systems and infrastructures.

Selected papers will be presented during the conference and published into Chemical Engineering Transactions http://www.aidic.it/cet

The quality of this publication is valued by ISBN & ISSN numbers, reference by SCOPUS and THOMSON REUTERS (ISI Web of Knowledge, conference proceedings) citation indexes. In addition each paper will be available online thanks to the DOI identification.

The CISAP5 Organizers would be very pleased to receive your personal scientific contribution and would appreciate your help in disseminating the CISAP5 call for papers.

For any further information or assistance you may contact this secretariat cisap5@aidic.it.

TC 262 - Project committee: Risk management

We are pleased to inform you that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) officially confirmed the liason between ISO/PC 262 (Project Committee: Risk Management) and EU-VRi. The ISO PC 262 members (31 participating countries and 6 observing countries) have kindly accepted the application for liaisoning of EU-VRi. EU-VRi and its members are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration and exchange on standardization activities in the field of ISO 31000 family of standards, and ISO 31004 in particular. Find out more about ISO/PC 262 following this link.

The last call for proposals for the Cooperation NMP Programme of FP7 has been published on July 20, 2011. It includes the topic “NMP.2012.3.0-2 Total Safety Management for industrial organizations” promoted by ETPIS. 

The call text is now available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation#nmp

You can find more information about the call context by visiting the homepage of the Industrial Technologies Unit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/index_en.cfm

To facilitate the development of relevant projects, ETPIS has organized a workshop and a brokerage event on September 19, 2011 in Brussels.

In the morning the call “NMP.2012.3.0-2 Total Safety Management for industrial organizations” has been presented by the project officer in charge of the call. Then, results from recent projects and initiatives provided an overview of the remaining challenges in the field of Human and organizational factors in industrial safety.

In the afternoon, a brokerage event was organized in two parts. First, consortia and project initiators have had the opportunity to present their ideas, get a feedback and find possible additional partners. Then, partners interested by the call had the possibility to present their profile.

Agenda, link

Note that the draft agenda includes a list of potential partners describing their profiles and offering participation in a project (access reserved to ETPIS members).

ESREL 2011

The 2011 Annual European Safety & Reliability Conference - ESREL 2011 jointly organized by ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association) and UTT (Troyes University of Technology) took in Troyes, France,  September 18-22, 2011.

ESREL 2011 conference provided a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific works covering theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. ESREL 2011 was also an opportunity for researchers and practitioners, academics and engineers to meet, exchange ideas and gain insight from each other.

For further details, please click here.

Nanodevice, ETPIS & Nanofutures with the support of CEN TC 352 have organised a workshop to investigate the possible synergies and opportunities from on-going projects for standardization activities in the field of nanosafety. 

Nanodevice, the European Technology Platform of Industrial Safety (ETPIS), Nanofutures and several other initiatives such as Nanosafe, Saphir… have similar objectives on the improvement of the management of the risks related to nanoparticles and the sharing of best practices using standardization.

The standardization appears to be a key valorization and output of collaborative research, especially of the research performed on emerging technologies. It enables to share knowledge and good practices in an effective way, in particular giving the access of the information to SMEs and contributing to effective, clear and transparent governance. CEN has launched the STAIR initiative (An Integrated Approach for Standardization, Innovation and Research) that is encouraged to be applied to research projects dealing with emerging technologies.

Regarding nanotechnologies CEN has started standardization work on (i) classification, terminology and nomenclature (ii) metrology, measurement and characterization (including procedures for calibration), (iii) health, safety and environmental issues; and (iv) nanotechnology products and processes.

Recently, CEN accepted a mandate M/461 requesting to develop the standardization deliverables listed in its Annex I - Characterization of and exposure from nanomaterials and Annex II - Health, Safety, and Environment of the mandate. The CEN/TC 352 Nanotechnologies was asked to take care of this mandate which recommends that the work to be performed should take into account on-going pre-normative R&D.

Conscious of the needs and the opportunities for the European innovative industry, a group of persons, coming from Nanodevice, ETPIS & Nanofutures, have decided to start an initiative aiming at capitalizing the results from several European and national projects into standardization documents, and providing proposals to address the mandate M/461. This group, with the support of CEN TC 352, invited other experts to join the workshop on September 14 to investigate the possible synergies and opportunities from on-going projects for standardization activities in the field of nanosafety. 

The agenda is available here.

19^th World Congress on Occupational Health and Safety at Work

Istanbul, 11-15 September 2011

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Turkey (MLSST) have co-hosted the XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work from 11-15 September 2011 in İstanbul, Turkey, together with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).

The global financial and economic crisis has had adverse effects on employment and working life, and also on occupational safety and health all over the world. Global challenges necessitate global cooperation and one of the most effective and efficient ways is to invest jointly in a safe working environment which will promote well-being and boost productivity by means of eliminating injuries and illnesses.

The object of World Congress was ensuring opportunity of exchange of new information on occupational health and safety among related ones for the aim of introducing culture of prevention worldwide.
The target of the whome to be participated at World Congress was to get an idea about how the relations will be enhanced among governments, employers, non-governmental organizations, employer representatives, employees and their organizations and occupational health and safety professionals in order to eliminate occupational injuries and diseases in whole world.
It was also expected that occupational health and safety practicers gain information on the practical ideas which could be immediately adapted and put into practice.

The programme consisted of an opening, plenaries, technical sessions and symposia as well as a high-level closing session, to elaborate on the motto and the themes of the World Congress. Speaker's corners, Poster sessions, a safety and health exhibition and the international Film and Multimedia Festival round up the conference programme.

You will find the first announcement of this event here.

For further information visite the website of the event: http://www.safety2011turkey.org/index.php

EFFRA is pleased to announce the opening of the consultation process for the association’s strategic research roadmap ‘Factories of the Future - Beyond 2013’. This is a unique opportunity to have your say in the creation of the EFFRA strategic research roadmap.

EFFRA strongly believes that the common strategic framework that is currently under preparation should foster a continuation of the Factories of the Future initiative. Therefore, EFFRA's Industrial Research Advisory Group has compiled a consultation document to reflect on what should be the objectives, approach and scope of the Factories of the Future PPP beyond 2013.

The consultation document and feedback form is being supplied to EFFRA members as well as through the Manufuture platform, Manufuture NRTPs, related European Technology Platforms etc however a copy can be requested via the EFFRA office (see also www.effra.eu).

The consultation document provides an opportunity for interested stakeholders to express suggestions for improvement, completion and priority areas. Such suggestions will contribute to the construction of the strategic roadmap ‘Factories of the Future Beyond 2013’. A first version of this roadmap is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2011.

For ETPIS, it is an opportunity to connect the activities of Safe Products / Production fom SafeFuture to the Factory of the Future initiative. Therefore, we ask you to consider carefully this invitation.

Please note: The deadline to send your contribution to ETPIS is September 20th, 2011, in order to consolidate an ETPIS response. The feedback form should be sent to info@industrialsafety-tp.org by this date. Then ETPIS Executive Board will send the consolidated contribution by September 28, 2011.

M.O.R.E. (Management Of Risks in the Economy) 25 on 
Mapping and Modelling Risks and Opportunities (MMR+O 2)

The Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics) organized a conference to provide a platform between the insurance community, the specialist and academic communities and policy makers to discuss issues on balancing risks and opportunities.

This seminar took place on 12-13 July 2011, in Bermuda and was organised by Axis Re and The Geneva Association, the leading think-tank of the world insurance industry.

The seminar is in English. Participation is free, limited to 50 experts, on a first-come first-served basis. You will find more details in the programme available here.

Website of the Geneva Association: http://www.genevaassociation.org/

The report regarding control of ageing in industrial installation was available in French at http://www.ineris.fr/centredoc/benchmark-vieillissement-general-web.pdf, it is now available in English at http://www.industrialsafety-tp.org/filehandler.ashx?file=8469.  

It describes the regulations and practices in France and in four other countries (UK, Germany, Netherlands, US).
This report is the first one of a series of three. Two other reports regarding control of ageing are still in progress :
- benchmark about storage in refineries,
- benchmark about pipes in refineries.

For more information, contact: Valerie.DEDIANOUS@ineris.fr

Double Medal Winning Papers

Current and past members of HSL (Health and Safety Laboratory) staff have been awarded medals by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for their involvement in producing exceptional published papers.

IChemE medals recognise achievement and work across all aspects of chemical, process and biochemical engineering. The Hutchinson Medal, awarded for both practical and wide-ranging, philosophical or thought-provoking published papers, is normally only awarded to one set of authors, however, an exception has been made for 2010 with two HSL led papers gaining recognition.

HSL's retired former Head of Process Safety Dr Terry Roberts was recommended for the medal along with co-authors Les Shirvill, (Shell Global Solutions) Kevin Waterton (CAPCIS) and Ian Buckland (HSE). The paper 'Fire resistance of passive fire protection coatings after long-term weathering' was published in 'Process Safety & Environmental Protection' in January 2010.

HSL's current Head of Fire and Process Safety Dr Laurence Cusco and HSL Combustion Physics specialist Dr Graham Atkinson were also awarded the medal in recognition of their contribution to the 'Interpretation of overpressure markers and directional indicators in full-scale deflagrations and detonations'.

Further information: http://www.hsl.gov.uk/spotlight-on-science/double-medal-winning-papers.aspx

Short explanation of action: The Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) provides research-based scientific support to the European Community on the formulation, implementation and monitoring of EU policies for the control of major accident hazards, chiefly the Seveso II-Directive, 96/82/EC, concerning the processing and storage of hazardous substances. 
 
Short description of the activity (profile):
Development of methods and tools for the consistent and robust assessment of risks in chemical industrial plants, focusing on all causes, i.e., accidents internal to the installation, natural events and malicious acts. Research on accidents involving hazardous substances. Analysis of trends and lessons learned applying appropriate risk assessment methodologies and tools. 
 
Specific requirements for the call/knowledge:
PhD in science, engineering or equivalent, or minimum 5 years of research experience after the first university degree giving access to PhD studies. The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience in the analysis of hazardous installations, both frequency and consequences of major accidents and use of reliability datasets. Experience associated with implementation of the Seveso II Directive and knowledge of EU legislation for classification and labelling of hazardous substances are preferred. 
 
Language requirements: 
Knowledge of English at B2 language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. 
 
Eligibility criteria: 
PhD degree or a minimum of 5 years full time research experience after the first university degree giving access to doctoral (PhD) studies in a field relevant to the JRC's scientific activities, according to the eligibility requirements for the grantholder category (please see: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/jobs.php?id=8) 

Duration: 36 months
Location: Ispra, Italy

The European Commission invites stakeholders to a brainstorming workshop on regulatory testing of nanomaterials. The event took place in Brussels on 25^th May 2011.

·      Background

The fast development of manufactured nanomaterials and their presence on the market make it necessary to evaluate their environmental and health impacts. The Commission intends to publish a call aiming at funding a project with max EU contribution €10 million and targeted overall contribution from Member States and FP7 associated states, governments and industry, of €40 million.

·      Objectives

The objectives were to share ideas in order to conceptualise the action, to analyse and plan the problem solving process and to bring together the main stakeholders, authorities, industry and research laboratories.

·      Participation

The meeting was open to funding services and agencies of the Member States and of FP7 associated states, to industry, academia, research laboratories and any other person active in this domain.

White paper on Transport 2011

Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area - Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system.

The European Commission adopted a roadmap of 40 concrete initiatives for the next decade to build a competitive transport system that will increase mobility, remove major barriers in key areas and fuel growth and employment. At the same time, the proposals will dramatically reduce Europe's dependence on imported oil and cut carbon emissions in transport by 60% by 2050.

By 2050, key goals will include:

• No more conventionally-fuelled cars in cities.
• 40% use of sustainable low carbon fuels in aviation; at least 40% cut in shipping emissions.
• A 50% shift of medium distance intercity passenger and freight journeys from road to rail and waterborne transport.
• All of which will contribute to a 60% cut in transport emissions by the middle of the century.

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/strategies/2011_white_paper_en.htm
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/220

6th ETPIS General Assembly

The 6th ETPIS General Assembly took place on March 10, 2011 in Brussels, at Fondation Universitaire.

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

In addition, the new elected Executive Board of ETPIS has been introduced and the plans for 2011 have been presented.

Representatives from DG Enterprise and DG Environment were also present their "industrial safety" agenda for the short and mid term, with the adoption of a proposal to replace the current Seveso directive and the new Industrial Emission Directive adopted on November 24th, 2010.
 
The agenda of the General Assembly is available here.

If you need more information, please contact info@industrialsafety-tp.org .

Practically, the operational objectives that the workshop were:

ARTHEMIS JU Call 2011

The ARTEMIS JU Call 2011 will be launched on 28 February. To help organisations in building quality consortia and drafting their project proposals for Call 2011, ARTEMIS Information and local brokerage events are organised around Europe.

ARTEMIS JU Information Day for Call 2011

The international ARTEMIS JU Information Day will take place in Nuremberg on 1 March as part of the ARTEMIS Spring Event 2011. It is open to everyone who is interested in the ARTEMIS programme. The Programme Officers of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking will inform you about the process, procedures, submitting tool and so on. The ARTEMIS Industry Association will inform you about the Annual Working Programme 2011.

Are you curious about the do's and don'ts ? Feel welcome to visit the event. For information and registration go to: http://www.artemisia-association.org/se2011_home

ARTEMIS Information and brokerage events

The first ARTEMIS Brokerage Event for Call 2011 was organized by the ARTEMIS Industry Association and took off in Barcelona last December. Go for the result to: http://www.artemisia-association.org/be2011

On 17 January, TEKES organized an ARTEMIS event in Finland. On 1 February, the ARTEMIS Platform Austria organized an event in Vienna. Right now the ARTEMIS platforms in France (UbiFrance), Sweden (VINNOVA) and Italy are trying to realize ARTEMIS Information events in their countries. Please, check the ARTEMIS website for calendar and timing! The information can be found on the page: upcoming events.

You are cordially invited for the ARTEMIS Spring Event in Nuremberg on 1-2 March. The place to be where the ARTEMIS industry, Knowledge centres, Policy makers, members of ARTEMIS Industry Association will shake hands with the embedded world event 2011. 

As you may recall, in April 2008 CEN has published the CEN Workshop Agreement document  CWA 15740:2008 "Risk-Based Inspection and Maintenance Procedures for European Industry (RIMAP)". What at the time was envisaged primarily as a step enabling practical application of RIMAP results and had to compete against well established documents from the US, came out to be a robust concept with some important advantages like linking RBI to RCM, allowing application of different specific methodologies and tools under the same framework, successful applications and the possibility to embed the financial aspects of RBI/RCM.

Now, at the beginning of 2011, 3 years after being issued, the status of CWA 15740:2008 document must be reviewed. Several options for "further life" and further development are open and it would be very important that the interested stakeholders decide which way is in their best interest. That is why we would like to invite all the people and companies interested in standardization of modern RBI approaches and practices, and in particular those meaning that CWA 15740:2008 could offer a good basis for that to come to

Coordination and Brainstorming Meeting
on
"Future of standardization of Risk-Based Inspection and Maintenance in Europe,
based on further development of  CWA 15740:2008"

The meeting will take place in

Munich on February 15, 2011, 10:00 - 15:00
TÜV SÜD Headquarters
Room C4.24
Westendstr. 199
80686 Munich, Germany

jointly organized by TÜV SÜD and Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies (the coordinator of CWA 15740:2008). More details are to be found at: http://www.eu-vri.eu/fwlink/?LinkID=312

The objective of the meeting is to define the "way forward" which has to be communicated to CEN and DIN at latest in April 2011.

The following aspects should be explored:

1.    Which standardization or other bodies (CEOC?) are interested in advancing the standardization aspects of the European RBI

2.    Which companies/persons would like to be involved into this activity

3.    CEN TCs possibly interested in "hosting" the topic

4.    Define the principal directions of contents updating of CWA 15740:2008 – e.g. with respect to new US, Japanese and Korean docs, and developments in countries like China

5.    Define the Operating team for the new European RBI (EN based on CWA 15740:2008)

6.    Prepare the report for the CEOC GA in May in Warsaw (if appropriate) or at some other occasion(s)

7.    AOB

Steinbeis Advanced Risk Technologies will prepare and launch the survey (CEOC, TÜV and other partners might contribute reviewing the questions and by inviting people to take part) to prepare better for the meeting.

Please register at:

http://www.eu-vri.eu/fwlink/?LinkID=311

There are no registration fees but the registration is mandatory.

The central nerve in the spine of our high-tech world is metrology, the science of measurement. Ever more precise and reliable measurements are essential in our daily lives, and to drive innovation within our knowledge based economy. What we cannot measure, we do not understand properly, and cannot control nor manufacture or process reliably. Thus, advances in metrology
have a profound impact on our understanding of and ability to shape the world around us. With the overall goal of accelerating innovation and competitiveness, generating data and knowledge necessary to improve quality of life, and providing better tools for the scientific community the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) aims, through European integration, to develop new measurement capabilities which have strategic impact for Europe. The EMRP is one of the new European supported Article 169 (Art. 185) initiatives, jointly funded by the European Union and the participating countries (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as Norway, Switzerland and Turkey).

• Stage 1 of the Call for proposals for PRTs is open from 4 February 2011 to 20 March 2011.
• Stage 2 of the Call for proposals for Joint Research Projects (JRPs) and associated EMRP Researcher Grants is open from 20 June 2011 to 3 October 2011.

Risk calculations by prescription:rituals for granting permits and land-use planning

In The Netherlands, the quantification of risks in external safety policy has developed into a ritual due to the prescription of an oversimplified calculation program. This prescription is referred to as unification. The present advice deals with two aspects: on the one hand, the risk calculations themselves, and on the other, the use of the outcomes of risk calculations in decision-making. The way in which calculations must now be made fails to do justice to the complexity of industrial practice, and the way in which the decision-making takes place severely limits the potential of quantitative risk analysis for understanding risks and prioritising actions. This is demonstrated and discussed in this advisory report. The Netherlands Hazardous Substances Council wishes to argue for better calculation methods and data, and moreover for reform of the decision-making process. This latter will be elaborated in a later advisory report.

Link to the report: http://www.adviesraadgevaarlijkestoffen.nl/getfile.asp?id=108 

REACH – EJRR Conference

The second EJRR conference, whose ETPIS is partner, will take place on Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at the Club De Warande in Brussels.

Overview
The first registration deadline of the REACH regulation has just passed: Substances in high quantities and CMR substances had to be registered by 1 December 2010 - two more will follow until 2018.

At this conference, the second in the field of law which is covered by our European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR), we will evaluate and discuss the impacts and challenges of this registration deadline for the chemical industry. 
At the beginning of the conference the actual situation after December will closely looked at from different points of view with seven speakers from various backgrounds informing the audience about their experiences. Towards the end the speakers will concentrate on a possible revision (panel discussion with all speakers).

Target Group
 This EJRR Conference on REACH mainly targets members of the legal departments of the chemical industry and downstream users as well as lawyers with a focus on chemical law. 

Benefits of Attending
- Hear top-level experts exchange their views about the challenges of REACH after the registration deadline of December 1
- Get updated on the latest developments of the regulation
- Meet professionals from all over Europe and enjoy a great networking opportunity just a stone's throw away from Brussel's European Quarter

Please find here the programm.
You may also visit the following link for further information:
http://www.lexxion.de/en/verlagsprogramm-konferenzen/anstehende-konferenzen/latest-developments-in-eu-risk-regulation.html

Call for research proposals

The FonCSI (Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture) has published a Call for Research Proposals concerningTechnological risk and societal concerns: Dynamics of the negociation, arbitration and compromise processes, which aims better to understand how operators, regulators, local government officials and other stakeholders negociate and reach compromises (which are often tacit) concerning the management of industrial safety. Further information on this call can be found at 
http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/research/CfP-2010/ 
Please feel free to send this information to any colleagues who might be interested, and to contact FonCSI (contact@icsi-eu.org)  if you have any questions concerning the call. 

Global Risks 2011, World Economic Forum

The financial crisis has drained the world’s capacity for dealing with shocks. The frequency and severity of risks to global stability have amplified, while the ability of global governance systems to deal with them has not.

This World Economic Forum publication, while painting a less than optimistic picture of the world’s ability to cope with fresh shocks, does highlight strategies stakeholders can adopt to reduce the down- sides associated with global risks. Apart from identifying risk clusters and emerging risks, the report also cites two serious cross-cutting threats. These are the uneven distribution of the fruits of globalization and the increasingly difficult task of finding common ground between nations.

The report is available at: http://riskreport.weforum.org/

BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling - Final Report

The Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling presented the results of its comprehensive, nonpartisan investigation of the worst environmental disaster in American history. According to the report, the missteps and safety lapses that precipitated the Deepwater Horizon blowout are industry-wide.
Please find the final report here.

Seveso II - Review of the directive

A review of the Seveso II Directive 96/82/EC has recently been concluded.
As a result of the review process, on 21 December 2010 the Commission adopted  aproposal for a new Directive that would repeal and replace the current Directive) by 1 June 2015.

The main changes proposed are:

• to align Annex I to the Directive (defining the substances falling within its scope) to changes to the EU system of classification of dangerous substances to which it refers;
• to include corrective mechanisms to adapt Annex I in the future to deal with situations over time from the alignment where substances are included/excluded that do/do not present a major-accident hazard;
• To strengthen the provisions relating to public access to safety information, participation in decision-making and access to justice, and improve the way information is collected, managed, made available and shared;
• to introduce stricter standards for inspections of installations to ensure the effective implementation and enforcement of safety rules.

The full report is available here.
For further information, please click here. 

Call for Presentations and Posters - EuroNanoForum 2011

For the first time, EuroNanoForum is joining forces with another leading European nanotechnology event, Nanotech Europe, to provide a single meeting point for the whole nanotechnology community. Previous EuroNanoForum and Nanotech Europe events have each attracted 700-1000 participants.

Contributions
The Lund Declaration of July 2009 specifies the Grand Challenges faced by European society and businesses should be solved by sustainable solutions in several areas such as global warming, tightening supplies of energy, water and food, ageing societies, public health, pandemics and security with the overarching challenge of turning Europe into an eco-efficient economy.

Abstracts are expected to specify potential contributions to solving such grand challenges with nanotechnology.

EuroNanoForum 2011 contributions may address scientific, industrial and/or societal aspects:

Contributions may be in the form of a presentation or a poster.
Applications for presentations and posters may be submitted until 31 January 2011.

Selection
The abstracts will be reviewed by an International Advisory Committee which is composed of representatives of European private and public research and industry.

Award for young researchers
Awards will be offered to the best posters presented by young researchers.
The authors of the selected best posters will be invited to participate at the conference.

PPE conference 2011

On February 1-2, 2011 the European Textile Technology Platform together with the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety and other key stakeholders of the European Personal Protective Clothing & Equipment sector will organise a high-level conference in Brussels.

The purpose of the PPE Conference 2011 is to take stock of the activities of the European Lead Market for Protective Textiles over the last 3 years and to explore evolving end user needs, emerging technology and innovation trends as well as business developments in the European and global markets for Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment.

The 1 1 day event will especially seek an intensive exchange between buyers and users of such products on the one side and the PPE value chain on the other. Finally the event will also benefit from contributions of policy makers, regulators and other public sector stakeholders with impact on the future shape of the European PPE market.

Please find the conference programme, registration and hotel booking forms. By registering before December 10, 2010 you can benefit from the early bird rate of € 295.- and should also be able to book a room at the conference hotel at the conference rate of € 110.-.

CEN Workshop 41 - Competence of specialists advising SMEs concerning integrated quality, environment, health and safety

Workshop Biogas - Safety and Regulations November 24, 2010, Paris, France

Practically, the operational objectives that the workshop will fulfill are:

Partners of the event:

International cooperation on shared R&D challenges

The European Standards Organizations CEN and CENELEC wish to inform research and innovation actors on the value of standardization as an instrument for knowledge transfer and see a major advantage in having an integrated approach between Standardization, Innovation and Research.

 

In an integrated approach between Standardization, Innovation and Research, standardization does not come as an afterthought but is built into a project proposal right at the start. This introduces significant benefit potential for the project itself and for any actions after the project’s life-time.

In order to promote such an integrated approach between Standardization, Innovation and Research, CEN and CENELEC have produced a new brochure.

See: http://www.industrialsafety-tp.org/filedown.aspx?file=6805

The rapidly developing field of nanotechnologies presents many opportunities and benefits for new materials with significantly improved properties as well as revolutionary applications in the fields of energy, environment, medicine, etc... The industrial production and use of nanoparticles will be the driving force for the emerging new materials industry of the 21st century. In terms of economics, analysts have estimated that the worldwide market for nanomaterials will be 2,600 billion Euros in 2014. However, the potential impact of these new materials on human health and the environment is viewed with apprehension. This new industry can only develop dynamically if these preoccupations are satisfactorily allayed.

Following the successful outcome of the past International Conference on Safe production and use of nanomaterials Nanosafe 2008 that took place in Grenoble (France), the Organizing Committee has decided that the next edition will take place in MINATEC again in November 2010.

Topics concerned by this call: 1.   Exposure assessment 2.   Characterization, Detection and Monitoring 3.   Nanomaterials life cycle 4.   Toxicology 5.   Environmental impact 6.   Nanoparticles release from consumer products 7.   Personal protection equipment 8.   Secure industrial production 9.   Safety parameters evaluation 10.   Standardization, Regulations

Registration is still open. All details can be found on the website: http://www.nanosafe.org

FP7 brokerage event - October 14, 2010 in Brussels

The European Technologie Platform for the future of Textiles and Clothing (Textile-Platform) is organising a FP7 Project brokerage event on October 14, 2010 in Brussels. The event will present several Programmes and individual project ideas related to textiles and clothing, particularly with safety aspects. For further information, you will find the draft agenda here.

ETPIS has developed a partnership with the European Technology Platform for Textile to address the call for proposal SEC 2011 4.4.1 CBRN individual protective clothing and other calls where safety expertise can benefit consortia working on smart textile and PPE.

If you would like to participate to the borkerage event organised by EURATEX, ETP Textile and in partnership with ETPIS, please, fill in the registration form which available here.

TNO has created a digital learn & work environment called the Resilience Innovation Lab. The aim of the lab is to further the concept of resilience and thus provide for safer and more robust operations.


In its first newsletter, TNO gives information on the state of affairs of its lab.

The website has grown into an online community with a lot of functionalities. The functionalities that are now available are:

• Up- and download documents
• Share and add knowledge using wiki’s
• present yourself on the personal profile pages
• Forum
• Blog
• Agenda and news page

TNO tries to stimulate the growth of the concept of resilience as best as possible with those functionalities. You can find an explanation on the website about what it is and how to use it for each of those functionalities.

You can find the Resilience Innovation Lab at: www.resilience-innovationlab.org

The meeting, of the European Materials Research Society, which will take place in Warsaw at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, 14-15 September, will include 15 parallel symposia:

A	- Carbon dioxide a raw material for sustainable development
B	- Semiconducting oxides
C	- Materials, devices and economics issues for tomorrow’s photovoltaics
D	- Multidimensional electrical and chemical characterization at the nanometer-scale of organic and inorganic semiconductors
E	- Nanoscaled Si, Ge based materials
F	- 10th International symposium on electrochemical/chemical reactivity of metastable materials
G	- Phase transitions in functional ABO3 perovskites
H	- Novel materials for alternative energy sources: Hydrogen technology, fuel cells and Lithium batteries
I	- Computer modelling in nanoscience and nanotechnology: an atomic-scale perspective
J	- New materials and homeland security
K	- Second generation (Al.,In)GaN laser diodes and complex optoelectronic devices
L	- Novel materials, coats and nanoengineering
M	- Nanosurface layers on metals and ceramics
N	- Inhomogeneous and hybrid magnetic semiconductor systems
O	- Smart growth of II-VI compounds with emphasis on CdTe and related Cd-rich mixed systems, and ZnO

You will find the Programme, here.

Fore more information: http://www.emrs-strasbourg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=334&Itemid=1

In operational terms, INNO[SAFE&CLEAN] will focus on the following objectives:

• Identify through a survey the most innovative industrial sectors where new risks are expected because of new materials (nanomaterials, advanced composites…), new chemicals or bio-substances, new processes or important changes in existing known processes.

• Map the anticipated industrial risks, for the sectors identified.

• Elaborate a concerted definition of the needs to improve risk control (tools, data, services…)

• Propose an action plan and a roadmap with business scenarios in terms of R&D, dissemination and training, and services to industry (including certification or labels).

On 7, 8 and 9 September 2010, a major conference in the area of Industrial Technologies will be organised in Brussels by the European Commission in cooperation with the Belgian EU Presidency. The focus will be on nanotechnologies and nanosciences, materials and production technologies, which are the key areas of the FP7 NMP Theme.

The European Industrial Technologies Conference will address:

• The need for innovation within European industry and major obstacles hindering innovation;
• Future perspectives for industry with newly developed manufacturing technologies, materials and nanotechnologies;
• The social, environmental sustainability and competitiveness perspectives of the European manufacturing industry.

The conference will give you the possibility to meet major actors in the field. It will be an international forum where industry, research organisations, universities as well as policy makers will meet and discuss possibilities for cooperation and proposals for improved integration in the near future.

In addition to the Commission NMP Theme and the Belgian EU Presidency, the conference is also supported by the Manufuture European Technology Platform which represents the major European industries and research organisations in the field of manufacturing. The Platform is promoting the use of new enabling technologies in Factories of the Future.

Moreover, there is a dedicated session, called “Research & innovation and industrial safety” (B.2) on the 7^th of September in the afternoon presented by:

Chair

•     Richard Gowland, European Process Safety (UK)

Speakers

•     H. Wenzel, Vienna Consulting Engineers (Austria)
•     Knut Øien, Senior Scientist at SINTEF Safety and Reliability, Trondheim (Norway)
•     Emmanuelle Brun, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA (EU) on ‘Making Europe a safer, healthier, and more productive place to work.

You can see the programme of this workshop, here.

 REGISTRATION and more information on : http://www.industrial-technologies2010.eu/

The rapidly developing field of nanotechnologies presents many opportunities and benefits for new materials with significantly improved properties as well as revolutionary applications in the fields of energy, environment, medicine, etc... The industrial production and use of nanoparticles will be the driving force for the emerging new materials industry of the 21st century. In terms of economics, analysts have estimated that the worldwide market for nanomaterials will be 2,600 billion Euros in 2014. However, the potential impact of these new materials on human health and the environment is viewed with apprehension. This new industry can only develop dynamically if these preoccupations are satisfactorily allayed.

Following the successful outcome of the past International Conference on Safe production and use of nanomaterials Nanosafe 2008 that took place in Grenoble (France), the Organizing Committee has decided that the next edition will take place in MINATEC again in November 2010.

Topics concerned by this call: 1.   Exposure assessment 2.   Characterization, Detection and Monitoring 3.   Nanomaterials life cycle 4.   Toxicology 5.   Environmental impact 6.   Nanoparticles release from consumer products 7.   Personal protection equipment 8.   Secure industrial production 9.   Safety parameters evaluation 10.   Standardization, Regulations

The abstract submission deadline for the Conference is July 30^th.

Abstract submission details can be found on the website: http://www.nanosafe.org

ETPIS and EU-VRi: partners of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2010-2011

The main theme of the campaign, which is organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), is the Safe Maintenance.

For the fifth time during FP7, DG Research is about to launch a major batch of calls open for participants from Member States, Associated countries, International Cooperation Partner Countries, and other countries.

The Environment theme covers topis such as climate change, environment and health, biodiversity, environmental technologies and earth observation, among others. Under the overarching theme " Transformation to Sustainable Societies in a Changing Environment" this year's areas of focus will be adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, eco-innovation and governance. Geographically-speaking, special emphasis is put on Latin America.

 

The International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Hazards 2010 in Mumbai

Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, along with Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, University of Maryland, USA and Society for Reliability and Safety are jointly organizing an ICRESH with the theme "Risk-besed Technology and Physics-of-failure methods" during 14-16 December 2010.

One of the new paradigms in Life and Reliability prediction, which is catching every organization's attention, is development and application of Physics-of-Failure approach. That is why the conference will offer several topics such as Reliability Prediction, Quantitative Methods, Software reliability, Physics of Failure Models, Passive System Reliability,... All of these topics have applications in many areas such as Nuclear Power Plants and Research Reactor, Chemical and Processing Plants, Aerospace and Navigation System,...The ojective of this conference is to provide a forum for technical discussions on recent developments in the area of risk-based approach and role of physics-of-failure methods in decision making. For more information, you will find the brochure (pdf) of the ICRESH 2010 here.

Innovation in technology, in the design process, in manufacturing and distribution, in the organization of socio-technical systems is a source of uncertainty. It raises new questions concerning the safety of new products, processes and organizations. Innovation is also required in risk management activities, in order to meet stakeholders' expectations of continuous improvement of the level of safety. The uncertainty which is inherent in innovation raises questions as to the guarantee of progress in safety.

The 3rd International Forum on Industrial Safety will deal with "Innovating in Safety".
Further information including the programme are available on the web site:
http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/event/2010/IFIS/

Two “Fast-track” sessions shall allow people to propose new ideas, even if they are not finalized. Undoubtedly, some of these ideas will tomorrow form the foundations of conventional wisdom. Come to present your ideas! Registration is free for contributors selected for a lightning talk. Moreover, you will be a co-author of the Cahier de la Sécurité Industrielle which will collect these novel ideas.
http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/event/2010/IFIS/CfP-IFIS-2010.pdf

For futher information, please contact: Gilles Motet, Scientific Director of the Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture

The 3rd International Forum on Industrial Safety will take place on July 6-7th, 2010, in Toulouse (France).

Innovation in technology, in the design process, in manufacturing and distribution, in the organization of socio-technical systems is a source of uncertainty. It raises new questions concerning the safety of new products, processes and organizations. Innovation is also required in risk management activities, in order to meet stakeholders' expectations of continuous improvement of the level of safety. The uncertainty which is inherent in innovation raises questions as to the guarantee of progress in safety.

The 3rd International Forum on Industrial Safety will deal with "Innovating in Safety".
Further information including the programme are available on the web site
http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/event/2010/IFIS/

Two “Fast-track” sessions shall allow people to propose new ideas, even if they are not finalized. Undoubtedly, some of these ideas will tomorrow form the foundations of conventional wisdom. Come to present your ideas! Registration is free for contributors selected for a lightning talk. Moreover, you will be a co-author of the Cahier de la Sécurité Industrielle which will collect these novel ideas.
http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/event/2010/IFIS/CfP-IFIS-2010.pdf

2^nd iNTeg-Risk Conference 2010:
New Technologies & Emerging Risk

Annual Topic: Dealing with multiple and
interconnected emerging risks

Main purpose of the conference is provide a forum at which the topics relevant for the EU "flagship project" iNTeg-Risk (“Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated Management of Emerging, New Technology Related, Risks”, www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu), involving a budget of almost 20 million €, more than 80 leading European companies and more than 400 professionals working on the project directly, can be openly and thoroughly discussed among all interested parties. It is, therefore, a unique opportunity for project partners to communicate their results to the “outside world” and an opportunity to interested professionals, not participating in the project, to learn “from one hand” about the project. Hence, all professionals working in the areas of risk/safety related emerging, communication, legislation and policy making are encouraged to contribute.

This year the conference will be focused but not limited onto the issues related to dealing with multiple and interconnected emerging risks of New Technologies. The conferences will be accompanied (see the program below) by 10 specialized workshop and courses devoted to major topics dealt with in iNTeg-Risk, by an exhibition and series of project meetings.

High-level representatives from government, regulatory and standardization bodies, EU and EU agencies, industry, press and other organizations will participate, too, and this will provide a unique opportunity to meet and exchange experiences among different stakeholders groups.

For further information, please visit: http://www.integrisk.eu-vri.eu

The 13th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries will take place in Brugge, Belgium.

For more information, visit: www.lossprevention2010.com

In 2009, the Members of the ETPIS High Level Group have selected as a TOP 5 priority the following topic:

"Methods to maintain safety of aged and repaired structures and provide technologies for life extension
& Reliability based design and structural health monitoring (SHM) and risk based inspection technologies"

At the same time, several Member States have expressed their interest in initiatives that can help to better manage aging of the industrial facilities and infrastructures.

In France, a national action plan has been launched on January 13, 2010 to invite the industry to prepare the modernisation of the industrial facilities to minimize the impact of aging of the industrial installations (see http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Plan-de-modernisation-des.html).

As a contribution to this challenge, ETPIS with the collaboration of IMDR and the industrial partners represented in the High Level Group has organised a technical workshop entitled: New challenges in Structural Safety in the context of the EU2020 Strategy and EU Grand Challenges.

The workshop will take place in Paris, on May 31st, 2010.

The objective of the workshop are to:

- share information on  current challenges involving structural safety knowledge
- define the content of possible projects and initiatives
- identify leaders for new projects and new initiatives

If you want to participate, please visit the event dashboard (in the ETPIS Project Calendar) or register directly here.

You can find the agenda and the conditions for participation here.

You can submit a project idea using the project idea template and present it during the afternoon.

Please send your contribution before May 17th.

 

The 5th ETPIS General Assembly will be held in
Prague, Czech Republic, 19-20th May, 2010.

The red line of this event is the identification of synergies between ETPIS and other Technology Platform or European initiatives,  to address the Grand Challenges as identified by the European Commission and dealt with in the EU2020 Strategy (see http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/)

Information for the General Assembly are available here:
- Agenda (final version)
- Hotel Registration Form (special discount until 19/04/2010)
- Project idea form (for the brokerage event on May 20th, please send your contribution by May 7th, 2010).


Online registration is available until May 7th, 2010.
From now on, to register you please contact info@industrialsafety-tp.org.


The events that you can attend are:
. 18 May afternoon: 5th meeting of the National Technology Platform on Industrial Safety
You should attend this event if you are a leader of a national TPIS or if you are an active member of your national TPIS. It will be the occasion to undertake activities to enhance the cooperation between the NTPIS.


. 19 May: 5th General Assembly of ETPIS Members with a focus on the collaboration with other ETPs and initiatives to address the EU Grand Challenges as identified in the Stategy 2020 adopted on March 3, 2010.
In the morning, you will learn about the activities of ETPIS partner organisations in the field of industrial safety and see where you could support or collaborate.
Then, after the presentation of the HLG priorities summarising the vision of the industry regarding industrial safety, 2 representatives of other ETPs will introduce their vision to address the European Grand Challenges and describe where industrial safety plays an important role.
Later in the afternoon, EU projects initiated or linked to ETPIS will be presented by their leadership.
Finally, the Executive Board will report about the activities in 2009 and present the plans for 2010.

. 20 May: Brokerage event to identify projects and initiatives among ETPIS members
This event is the occasion to present a project idea and collect interest, or to join initiatives and consortia in development.

If you want to submit a poster for the exhibition during breaks and lunch, or if you want to submit a project idea for the brokerage event, please use the "project idea form" and send it by May 7th, 2010 to info@industrialsafety-tp.org.


NB:
A registration fee of 95 € for each day (for 19-20 May) is required to cover costs related to the organization of the event (venue, catering including breaks and lunch…).
The registration fee for the NTPIS meeting is 80 € (including lunch and break in the afternoon).

In addition, the annual fee for participation in ETPIS activities (200 €) will be collected for year 2010.
By registering to the event you accept the conditions specified above.

The 5th Meeting of the National Technology Platform Industrial Safety will be held in
Prague, Czech Republic, 18th May, 2010 (from 12:00 to 17:30).

The objective of the meeting is to define synergies and common activities among the National Technology Platforms on Industrial Safety, in the context of the preparation of the ERANET Industrial Safety.

The draft agenda is available here.

Online registration is now available.
Register here


NB: a registration fee to cover the organisation of the meeting will be required (about 80 €).

The 4th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS) will be held in Frankfurt, Germany, 17-19th March, 2010.

See the website for the full program.

Online registration is now available. The facility can only accommodate 350 delegates -- be sure to register soon!
Register here.

ETPIS is a partner of the European Responsible Care programme supported by CEFIC.

In that context, ETPIS was involved in the project prisme²

prisme² has been initiated by Cefic together with ECEG and EMCEF, the chemical industry partners in the European Social Dialogue, and the UK based Centre for Tomorrow’s Company in November 2008. The project is designed to better involve small and medium sized companies in Responsible Care® and to generate added value to their business through improved environmental, health and safety management. prisme² stands for Promoting Responsibility In SMEs, where the squared symbol implies the redoubled effort through the involvement of employers and workforce.

You can find more information at on the CEFIC website, visiting: http://www.cefic.be/en/Responsible-care.html

Background

Goal-oriented regulations seem to be an attractive regulatory framework both for the authorities and for industry.
It provides flexibility where the requirements cannot be totally prescribed because of the complexity of the processes or systems dealt with. It gives the industry the opportunity to define the state-of-the-art and its quick evolution in particular when innovation is a driver some industry sectors. The role of the authorities is a role of endorsement of the good/best practices and control of implementation. When a goal-orientated regulation is accompanied with agreed guidance documents or norms, it helps the industry operators to demonstrate to the authorities the conformity with the regulations.

To gain knowledge and understand the level of implementation of goal-orientated regulations in the control of industrial risks INERIS in partnership with EU-VRi decided to launch a project and analyze the current practices in several countries and understand the difficulties faced by the authorities and the industry.
The scope of the analysis relates to the following regulations, relating to the control of industrial risks:
·    Seveso Directive
·    IPPC Directive
·    ATEX Directive and the Parent Directive for the Occupational Health and Safety at Work.

As part of the project, this workshop is organised in Brussels, on 20 November 2009, at CEN premises (17 Rue Marnix, Brussels, Belgium).


Agenda and background information

The final agenda is available here.
The Discussion Document, prepared by the Programme Committee is available here.
Comments are welcome until 10 December 2009, at info@industrialsafety-tp.org.


Presentations

 9:30  Welcome addresses:  
          Welcome from CEN, P. Ziethen (CEN - DIN, DE) [no presentation available]        
          Objectives of the workshop and the initiative, V. Laflèche (INERIS, FR)

10:00  Analysis of the Practices of Goal-Oriented Regulations to Control Industrial Risks: The legal perspective, A. Alemanno (HEC, FR)
11:00  Coffee break 

11:20  Towards Goal-Oriented Regulations:  An IPPC Case Study, A. Farid (Air Liquide, FR)

11:40  Current practices and examples of implementation in two EU Member States
           Experience in UK, L. Cusco (HSE-HSL, UK)
           Experience in NL, P. Uijt de Haag (RIVM, NL) & C. Pietersen (Hazardous Substances Council, NL)

12:30  Lunch break
   
13:40  Current practices and examples of implementation in non EU countries       
          Canada, Korea (video contribution) and international initiatives

14:00  Update on developments in the European standards environment (the Commission’s EXPRESS panel on
          future standardization), P. Ziethen (CEN - DIN, GE)

14:20  Round table on implementation issues: benefits or requirements      
          Moderators: O. Salvi (EU-VRi, DE) and M-A. Kordek (INERIS, FR)       
          Participants: C. Pietersen, M-J. Masson, M. Hailwood, P. Ziethen
   
15:30  Wrap-up and conclusions
 
16:00  Adjourn

Conditions for registration and registration fee
A registration fee of 150 € (excluding VAT) is asked to cover the costs related to the organisation and catering.
Registration is mandatory and was open until 16 November 2009.

To register, please click here.

After registration, you will receive an invoice from EU-VRi secretariat (the ETPIS Operating Agent).
By registering to the event you accept the conditions specified above.


If you have any question, please contact info@industrialsafety-tp.org .

List of the Programme Committee Members

Name	First Name	Company	Country
Alemanno	Alberto	HEC	France
Cusco	Laurence	Health and Safety Laboratory	United Kingdom
Farid	Amro	Air Liquide	France
Hailwood	Mark	Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Württemberg, Section Environmental Technology	Germany
Ketchell	John	CEN	Belgium
Kordek	Marie-Astrid	Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques	France
Kwon	H M	Korean OSHA	Korea, Republic Of
Lacoursière	Jean-Paul	Lacoursière Inc.	Canada
Masson	Michel-Jean	Air Liquide	France
Pawulski	Richard	Air Liquide	France
Pietersen	Chris M.	Hazardous Substances Council	Netherlands
Pirlet	André	CEN - European Committee for Standardization	Belgium
Reiss	Robert	Environnement Canada	Canada
Salvi	Olivier	European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management	Germany
Tokai	Akihiro	Osaka University	Japan
Uijt de Haag	Paul A.M.	RIVM-National Institute for Public Health and Environment	Netherlands
Van Xanten	N.H.W.	Hazardous Substances Council	Netherlands
Wiener	Jonathan	Duke University	United States
Ziethen	Ernst-Peter	CEN - European Committee for Standardization	Germany

ETPIS is a partner of the Healthy Workplaces European Summit 2009

LEIA, as active member of ETPIS, has organised a Workshop “Risk Assessment: the role of Large European Companies on Subcontracting” on November 16th in Bilbao (Spain).
This event is integrated in the “Network Day 2009” organized by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) in the context of the European “Risk Assessment” campaign and its Closing Event (November 17th, Bilbao). This Workshop has been promoted by the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety (ETPIS), as a partner of the EU-OSHA campaign.
Official website of the event: http://www.leia.es/RAS/index.html

ETPIS will be represented at the Closing event of the Healthy Workplaces Campaign on Risk Assessment, that will take place on 17 November 2009 at the Euskalduna Centre, Bilbao.
Programme and registration at: http://osha.europa.eu/en/campaigns/hw2008/europeansummit

Message from the organisers:


Dear Sir, dear Madam,
 
 
accelerating eco-innovation is an important aim of ETAP for the environment, the European economy and Europe in a global market. Proving that new technologies are working through Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) is one way to achieve the goal.
 
Therefore, the European Commission intends the implementation of a EU ETV system. ETV is an independent assessment of the performance of a specific environmental product or technology and provides quantitative information on the performance of innovative technologies.
 

• Investors and customers can have confidence that new technologies meet the claimed performance.
• Technology providers can speed up the market acceptance of innovative products.
• An ETV scheme at EU level can open markets within Europe following the principle 'verified once, accepted everywhere'
• International recognition and mutual acceptance with non EU ETV schemes supports European technologies in a global market.

 
In projects all over Europe, first experiences with ETV in pilot technology sectors such as air pollution abatement, water monitoring and treatment, cleaner production and contaminated site remediation have been collected.
 
The conference ‘Accelerating Eco-innovation through Environmental Technology Verification’ addresses technology providers, industry representatives and associations, politicians and regulators, with the aims to:
 

• Introduce ETV as a tool for technology promotion
• Show results of pilot verifications
• Open a gate for participants to present their views to the European Community and decision makers
• Actively discuss the pros and cons of EU ETV in a global market

 
The participation is free of charge!


The link to the conference programme is: http://www.eu-etv-strategy.eu/pdfs/Announcement&registration.pdf
 
Please find more information about the conference and how to register under www.airtv.eu or www.eu-etv-strategy.eu.
 
We hope the conference is of interest for you!
 
We are looking forward to seeing you in Brussels!

The conference will take place on 2 & 3 June 2009 in Stuttgart (Germany).
It is organized with the support of ETPIS and EU-OSHA, by EU-VRi and the iNTeg-Risk project.

More information is available here.

ESIG Product Stewardship Award is organized to showcase and reward best practices in the safe handling of solvents.

You are encouraged to submit best practice projects until 31 May 2009.

Detailed information: 
The application process for the 2009 round is now open.
ETPIS encourage the members to submit their best practice projects to us until 31 May 2009.
 
The winner will be invited to a glittering prize-giving ceremony in the framework of the Cefic Responsible Care Forum and ICCA Congress in Prague end of October and receive a high level of promotion on a European as well as on a national level.
ETPIS leadership will play a leading role in this ceremony.
 
More details, e.g. about the jury composition as well as the one-page application form in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian you will find using this link
 
http://www.esig.org/content.php?level1=3&level2=25&page=102&mode=1
 
 
In case of further questions, please do not hesitate to contact: Sandrine Philips on sph@cefic.be

This General Assembly is organised in collaboration with European associations and societies addressing risk and safety issues.
The following association will be rerepresented:

• EPSC, European Process Safety Center
• EFCE, European Federation of Chemical Engineering (G. Suter, Working Party Loss Prevention)
• SRA Europe, Society for Risk Analysis
• ESReDA, European Safety and Reliability Data Association
• ESRA, European Safety and Reliability Association
• ENERO, European Network of Environmental Research Organisations

The main objective is report on ETPIS activities and to develop synergistic collaboration with European Associations in particular to revise the Strategic Research Agenda.

Registration: (for organizational reasons please register before 2 March 2009 )
To register, click here

Venue:
Fondation Universitaire, Rue d'Egmont 11,
B - 1000 Brussels
Belgium
(www.universityfoundation.be)

Draft agenda: click here

Participation in the poster exhibition and networking:
If you intend to present a poster related to a project with European interest (funded by FP7) please send your intention to info@industrialsafety-tp.org
If you intend to present project ideas and find partners, please send your intention to info@industrialsafety-tp.org, with the completed project form.

Please note:
A registration fee of 100 € will be asked to cover costs related to the venue and catering.
In addition, the annual Membership fee of 100 € will be collected and the participant will become a ETPIS member for year 2009.
By registering to the event you accept the conditions specified above.
Registration is possible only until 9 March 2009.

The 1st meeting of the High Level Group will be hosted by BASF, in Ludwigshafen.
Indeed, the HLG was constituted in 2008 as a priority action of the Executive Board.

The members of the HLG are:

EDF
Philippe Klein
Head of Risk Management Department in EDF R&D

IBERDROLA
Antonio Moreno
Director HSE

BASF
Wolfgang Gerhardt
Vice President and Director HSE

EXXON Mobil
Theo van der Smeede
European HSE director

THE EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK
Terry Taylor
Head of Working Environment Information Unit

SWISS RE
Reto Schneider
Director and Head of Risk Engineering Services Casualty

SEAT SA
Ramon Paredes Sanchez-Collado
Human Resources Executive Vice President

SRA Europe 2009 Annual Meeting

Title: From the everyday to the extraordinary: challenges for risk analysis and management 

The SRA Europe Meeting in 2009 will be held from 28th June – 1st July in Karlstad, Sweden. The conference theme will span across the broad range of risk issues from everyday risks to extraordinary events. The conference aims to facilitate exchange of experiences from different disciplines, fields and application areas.

Authors wishing to present their work at the conference in the form of an oral presentation, poster, round table discussion or symposium are requested to submit an abstract no later than January 12th 2009. The submission of material must be in electronic form only, to the local organiser at .

More information under: http://www.sraeurope.org

Date and location: 1&2 December 2008, in Twente (NL)

Mrs Elena Turco (Grado Zero Espace Srl, www.gzespace.com) and Mr. Lorenzo Fiore (Aero Sekur S.p.A., www.aerosekur.com, Italy) will intervene as speakers in the round table discussion at the PPE Conference, on behalf of ETPIS.

Because ETPIS is a partner of the Conference, ETPIS members have a rebate at 500 Euro entry instead of 625 Euro.

More information at: http://www.efsm.nl/ppeconference,
Registration: www.efsm.nl/registration.

Date and location: 19-21 October, 2009 in Beijing, China.

Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and papers are invited for submission by 1 December 2008 for special sessions, or 1 January for independant papers.

For more infos: http://iee.pku.edu.cn/racr2009

Announcement can be downloaded here.

Note that prior to this event, the First China-Europe Risk Forum is beeing organised with the support of SRA Europe (www.sraeurope.org) and ETPIS.
The objective of the Forum is to promote sharing of knowledge and start of new initiatives. For more information on this Forum, please contact: info@industrialsafety-tp.org

NANOSAFE 2008, international conference, 3-7 Novembre 2008 in Minatec (Grenoble, France)

More information is available on the related project web site: http://www.nanosafe.org

Topics

• Exposure issues
• Characterization, Detection and Monitoring
• Filtration and personal protection
• Toxicology
• Life cycle analysis
• Secure industrial production
• Safety parameters evaluation
• Standardization, Regulations

European Week aims at cutting workplace accidents and diseases

Reducing the number of work-related accidents and illnesses is the target for the European Week for Safety and Health at Work from 20-24 October 2008. Organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the week's campaign activities will highlight the importance of assessing health and safety risks. EU-OSHA has also produced a new report on 'Risk Assessment' to showcase practical ways in which workplace risks can be managed and reduced. ETPIS, with 8 other major organisations, is supporting EU-OSHA to promote safe and healthy workplaces.

Nine pan-European and multinational organisations have signed up to be part of the first wave of official partners of the Healthy Workplaces campaign. Organised by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), the campaign focuses on the evaluation of health and safety risks and aims at reducing work-related accidents and illnesses. Improvements in this area are urgently needed. To give just one example figure: It is estimated that every three-and-a-half minutes somebody in the EU dies from work-related causes*.

Among the participating organisations are European employers’ and workers’ federations, multinational companies from various industry sectors, research platforms and NGOs. By signing up as official partners, these organisations get substantially involved in the campaign and promote risk assessment as the first essential step for good workplace safety and health management.

“We are very proud that so many renowned organisations decided to help us raise awareness on this important topic”, Jukka Takala, Director of EU-OSHA said. “Risk assessment is the key to preventing accidents and ill health at work. It is a legal obligation throughout Europe, but there are still companies that do not assess their risks regularly. This is reflected in figures of accidents and diseases at work which show that improvements are still needed, especially in SMEs. Partnerships with these nine organisations allow us to further increase the impact of our Healthy Workplaces campaign, already now one of the world’s largest information campaigns on occupational safety and health. And this is only the start since we are in touch with many more organisations that will join soon.”

In practical terms, the official partners promote the Healthy Workplaces campaign through their information channels, disseminate campaign material to their networks and organise their own activities such as conferences, workshops, training sessions, media events and poster competitions. In return, EU-OSHA rewards them with extensive promotion via its website and newsletter to more than 38,000 subscribers. In addition, every participant receives a Partner Certificate and is acknowledged when the Agency presents and promotes the campaign to stakeholders at EU level and to the media.

As stated at the web-site of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), on the 19th of September during his lecture Dr. Bahke has informed the audience about “Standardization as prerequisite for the success and sustainability of new technologies” and stressed out the positive collaboration between Steinbeis and DIN. “An early care for standardization in the research process and especially for the interpretation of results concerning state-of-the-art technologies can offer an advantage to Germany”, said Dr. Bahke. The audience was particularly interested in the use of standardization in research projects and new innovative fields, as well as in the value of standards in technology transfer.

Steinbeis day is the meeting point of colleagues, students and project partners of the Steinbeis Foundation (http://www.stw.de). Most of the directors of transfer centers are professors at universities.  

1st International Symposium for Process- and Explosion Protection
Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2008
Nürnberg
Messe Nürnberg

more information: www.vdi.de/explosion
 

2nd NTPIS meeting on 25th of September 2008: Starting to work together

Next 25^th of September the second meeting of the National Technology Platforms on Industrial Safety (NTPIS) with the theme "Starting to work together" will take place in the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia (Spain) where the ESREL 2008 and the 17^th SRA-Europe Conference (www.esrel2008.com) is hold that week.

 

The exact location of the meeting room is:

 "Sala Innova" (Innova Room)

8G building, A Entrance and 4^th floor

Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación

Camino de Vera s/n  Street

46002 Valencia.

The meeting will start at 15.00 with the presentation of Mr. Antonio Moreno, chairman of the Spanish Technology Platform on Industrial Safety and will be closed by Mr. Román Ceballos, Labour General Director of the Autonomous Community of Valencia, around 19.30.

Important information: meeting agenda and the map of the University.

If you want to attend the meeting, please contact: Estibaliz Crespo (estibalizc@leia.es), Fundación LEIA.

 

The joint ESREL and SRA-E 2008 Conference on Risk, Safety and Reliability, will be held in Valencia, Spain, September 22-25, 2008.
Information for participation is availble at:
http://www.esrel2008.com/

The Conference Website is updated regularly.
You will find information for the registration and the programme.

The Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture shall organize from July the 8^th to July the 10^th 2008 a Forum providing an understanding of the issues and of the methods associated with industrial risk. During the forum, speakers from various disciplines shall cover issues related to the management of technological risks, arbitration between multiple concerns and acceptability of industrial hazards.  The forum is organized in collaboration with the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety and the Politecnico di Milano.
 
More information on http://www.icsi-eu.org/english/news/2008/IFIS/ or contact: Gilles Motet, Scientific Director of ICSI.

2nd World Congress on Risk
sponsored by the
Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
and other international organizations

see www.sra.org


Held every five years, the 2nd World Congress on Risk is now fast approaching - don't miss it!

• Date: 8-11 June 2008, in Guadalajara, Mexico.
• Discounted early bird registration ends on May 1st.
• The Hilton Guadalajara is offering a special rate of $140 per night to attendees until May 4th.

Great location!
Located on the west side of Mexico near the Pacific Ocean, Guadalajara is the country's third largest city and the birthplace of Mexico's most famous traditions: tequila, charreadas (Mexican-style rodeo), and mariachi music. Guadalajara is blessed with great climate: Temperatures in June range in the 80's during the day and in the 60's in the evening (or 16 to 29 degrees Celsius).

In addition to a beautiful and culturally rich setting, we have planned a very exciting program for the Second World Congress. Highlights include:

Featured Speakers:
Vicki Colvin, Director, Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology,
Rice University
Carlos F. Corvalan, PAHO-Brazil
Adrián Fernández, President of the National Institute of Ecology, Mexico
David Franz, Director, National Agricultural Biosecurity Center, Kansas State University
David Frediani, Marsh & McLennan Companies International
Chongfu Huang, President, Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster
Prevention
Howard Kunreuther, Director, Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
Hermann Stamm, Unit Head, Nanotechnology and Molecular Imaging, Institute for
Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission (invited)

Special Sessions:
Agriculture, biotechnology, & food safety
Assuring the use of good science in risk-based public policy
Emerging sources of risk
Environmental justice in Latin America
Global climate change
Information management for risk regulations
International disasters and critical infrastructure
Public health priorities: infectious disease & safe drinking water
Risks to biodiversity & human health from invasive species
Sustainable energy

Present your work
We are still considering submissions for the afternoon program of mini-symposia and postern sessions.
Please visit the Second World Congress website (linked at www.sra.org ) to submit a proposal. If you have questions about a proposal idea or the process, please contact co-chairs Robin Cantor at rcantor@navigantconsulting.com and/or Javier Urbina-Soria at jaurso@gmail.com .

The 3^rd General Assembly has been hosted by Rosa Nomen and her team from IQS-URL in Barcelona, on 11 April 2008.


Find here the important information:
Detailed agenda

The presentation will be available soon on this page.

Election process

Elections of Executive Board were organised to legitimate the management of ETPIS, and therefore assure the sustainability of the operation of the Platform.

During the period between 7 March to 20 March, five candidates have applied to stand for election.

• E. Gainza, Managing Director of LEIA
• C. Jochum, Director of EPSC
• A. Jovanovic, Director of R-Tech GmbH and CEO of EU-VRi
• J. Meulenbrugge, Coordinator Industrial Safety at TNO
• O. Salvi, International Development Manager at INERIS

You can download the 5 application forms here.

The votes have taken place between 25 March and 8 April.
Every registered member of ETPIS were able to take part in the election and select the candidates he/she wants to elect.


Who to elect?

Executive members of the Management Board are elected according to the paragraphe 5.2.2 of the Terms of Reference (version 9).
Executive members of the Management Board shall represent a fair and balanced profile of stakeholders up to a maximum of 6 persons corresponding to the following functions :

• Chairperson
• General Secretary
• Financial Officer
• Officer for communication and co-ordination with other ETPs and national TPs
• Officer for the co-ordination of the Focus Groups
• Officer for the co-ordination of specific missions (implementation of the strategy)

Results

The 5 candidates were elected, plus R. Nomen who was nominated 11 times.
The distribution of the tasks presented at the 3rd General Assembly is as follows:

• E. Gainza (LEIA): Coordination of National TPIS, link with Mirror Group, preparation of ERANET
• C. Jochum (EPSC): Creation of a High Level Group
• A. Jovanovic (R-Tech, EU-VRi): Scientific Coordination and link with other ETPs
• J. Meulenbrugge (TNO): Financial issues to establish a membership fee
  
• R. Nomen (IQS): Specific missions, focus on the involvement of SMEs and implementation of the research results
  
• O. Salvi (INERIS): General Secretary

The representatives of the Member States will be informed about the activities of ETPIS, the project granted under FP7 and other intiatives. Discussions on the creation of an ERA NET+ will also take place.

The presentations will be available soon.

Title : Implementing the Strategic Research Agenda of ETPIS

ETPIS is organising a 2 days seminar on January 24-25, 2008 in Berlin to :
1) enable meetings of the Focus Groups to update the Strategic Research Agenda
2) develop a vision regarding the use of research infrastructures for safety and security, in particular to perform experiments.

Agenda is available here.

ETPIS and the Textile ETP organise jointly on December 3, in Brussels (EURATEX premises) a brokerage event for the 2nd FP7 call on the topic :
 
NMP-2008-4.0-9 Reducing the risk of injury in complex systems through advanced personal protective equipment.

The agenda is now available : click here.

To register, you can already send an email with your name and details to info_at_industrialsafety-tp.org before November 23 (registration after this date will not be possible).
See the annex of the agenda for the registration form.

To submit a project idea, please download the form and send it to info_at_industrialsafety-tp.org by November 26 at the latest.

EuroNanoForum 2007 which will take place on June 19^th-21^st 2007, at the Congress Center of Dusseldorf, in Germany.
ETPIS will be represented by Frederic Schuster (CEA) who will present the Strategic Research Agenda on NANOSAFETY.
For more information, visit :
http://www.euronanoforum2007.de/content/view/12/26/

or

http://www.nanosafe.org/node/810

The number of active national TPIS is growing with the official launch of Romanian TPIS (on 28 May 2007, in Buccarest) and Czech TPIS (on 13 June 2007, in Ostrava).

Please visit the section on "National TPIS".

The launch of the Romanian Technology Platform Industrial Safety took place in Bucarest on 28 May 2007, at the IVN "Stefan S. Nicolau".
This event was organised by INCDPM "Alexandru Darabont", coordinator of R-TPIS, and other active members :

• ICEMENERG S.A.
• INC-DTCTI.C.S.I
• I.V.N. "Stefan S. Nicolau"
• INCDT COMOTI
• ISP
• ICECON S.A.
• ASE
• UPB
• OVM ICCPET S.A.
• INIMM
• "Lucian Blaga" University

For more information, please contact Stefan Kovacs (stefan_agk@yahoo.com)

In cooperation with the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites to the second “European Conference on Security Research” SRC '07, which takes place within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency. At the same time, SRC '07 serves as the starting-conference for the “European Security Research Programme” which was / will be implemented as a specific programme for the first time within the Seventh Research Framework Programme 2007-2013. Besides this Community Security Research Programme, presentations will also cover several national programmes and initiatives in the field of security research including the launch of the new national security research programme of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The conference follows up the themes developed during the first “European Conference on Security Research” SRC '06, which was held in 2006 under the Austrian EU Council Presidency.

More information at : http://www.src07.de

During the day, information related to the state of the art regarding  risk issues has been shared, and ideas for new projects or initiatives have  been presented.

Agenda and presentations are available here.

 

Dear Colleague,


we are pleased to inform you herewith about the General Assembly of the European Technology Platform Industrial Safety (ETPIS -
www.industrialsafety-tp.org) in Stuttgart on February 13, 2007. The event might offer you an excellent opportunity to learn more about ETPIS and its plans and activities in the European Research Area, as well as about current situation and actions regarding the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7).

Please note that only the first part of the event is exceptionally open also to those who are not members of ETPIS, primarily due to the strategic importance of the broad EU collaboration needed in the area of safety.
In the second part of the Assembly, reserved to ETPIS members only (You can apply for membership using the application form at http://www.industrialsafety-tp.org/downloads/TPIS_membership.doc), the organizational issues important for the ETPIS activities in relation to the current FP7 calls, EUREKA, ERA-Net+ and other activities will be discussed and some important decision made.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Stuttgart.

The application details are
available in the attached documents and under
http://euvri.risk-technologies.com/events/default.aspx?EventID=2.

Regards



EU-VRi Information Center (A. Jovanovic)

Attachments:
1. Agenda
2. Invitation Letter

 The NEW OSH ERA project will help to combine the strengths of the different EU Member States in occupational safety and health (OSH) research.

Until now, the EU Member States have had their own separate OSH research programmes, dealing with what are often very similar subjects. At the same time, the problems that OSH researchers face are increasingly complex, with many different factors involved.

NEW OSH ERA, which is funded within the ERA-NET scheme under the Sixth EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, will help to overcome this fragmentation and duplication in EU OSH research.

By increasing cooperation and coordination between different research programmes, NEW OSH ERA will help increase the overall scale and effectiveness of the research carried out in the EU. The networking and integration of national programmes will help EU researchers understand the increasingly complicated OSH issues that we face, and so contribute to the productivity and well-being of Europe's workers.

The NEW OSH ERA Consortium includes 18 leading public agencies, ministries and research organisations. The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health coordinates the New OSH ERA project. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (the Agency) is playing a full part in the project.

For more information : http://www.newoshera.eu.

Implementing the Strategic Research Agenda: the ETPIS seminar will be held in Paris on 27-28 November 2006.

2 days seminar to aim at presenting ideas on project initiatives within the FP7 work programme and presenting progress at national level with the national TPIS.

Please download draft agenda and registration form.

If you wish to submit a project or ideas for FP7 or national reserach, please upload the form and complete it with your project description for presentation.

Please send forms back to sylvie.gualdo@ineris.fr by November 16, 2006.


Attachments

• Draft agenda
• Registration form
• Project Template
  • List of projects (to be presented)
  
  

For more information, please visit : www.industrialsafety-tp.org/de

ETPIS will join the "Mentoring Group" of the INNET Project at the Kick-Off meeting on 21st September 2006 near Paris. The "Mentoring Group" is an external group of high level experts established with representatives of major stakeholder groups in the field of concern, i.e. SME and innovation financiers, SME professional organisations, representatives of clusters as well as innovation/SME policy specialists. This group will meet periodically with INNET partners, around major project milestones, to provide substantial input on strategic positioning of the project, support and evaluate the progress and feasibility of the project. In our case, ETPIS will support the project regarding safety aspects and development.