Dear friends!

GCE Group invites you to take part in the 10th Jubilee International Forum on Industrial Safety to be held from May 29 to June 1, 2012 at the palatial interiors of Taleon Imperial Hotel located in the historical centre of Saint Petersburg.

Recall that the International Forum on Industrial Safety is traditionally held during the “white nights”, which are certainly one of the symbols of St. Petersburg. The holding of the Forum is supported by the CIS Executive Committee and the United Nations. Over the years the Forum was attended by delegations from 25 countries, and in 2011 Hungary, Switzerland and France also participated in it. 

The main audience of the Forum includes chief engineers, heads of departments and specialists on industrial safety and occupational safety & health of industrial enterprises.

Global experience in ensuring industrial safety is put forward for discussion every year, which includes the experience of state supervisory bodies, largest industrial corporates, and research and expert organizations. Analysis of the causes and the details of emergency response, as well as the lessons learned from man-made disasters are traditionally the focus of the programme.

IX International Forum on Industrial Safety was held on 31 May to 3 June 2011 in St. Petersburg at the hotel “Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya”. It was attended by representatives from the industrial enterprises and supervisory bodies of Russia, Ukraine, USA, Hungary, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Austria, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, France, Poland, Germany and Uzbekistan.

This year the participants listened to the presentations on the causes of accidents, details of the rescue operations and the lessons learned from the accidents that stirred the entire world community. These included “Fukushima-1”, the release of red mud in the aluminium factory in Hungary and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Speakers were: Miroslav Lipari, Head of the Department of Occupational Safety, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Victor Shaytan, the First Deputy Chairman of the State Department for Supervision of Mines and Industrial Safety, Ukraine, Attila  Nikosh, Head of the National Directorate for Disaster Management,  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary, and many others