Hazards is one of the world's leading process safety conferences, with a history dating back to 1960. The conference brings together industry practitioners to share good practice, emerging thinking and lessons learned in process safety, while providing a forum for informed technical discussion and professional networking.
This annual conference offers process safety and loss prevention professionals a valuable opportunity to engage with peers, strengthen professional networks and renew their focus on robust, effective process safety practice.
Join industry practitioners, regulators, and researchers at one of the world's leading process safety conferences. Since 1960, Hazards has provided an essential forum for sharing best practice, emerging thinking, and the lessons learned that are vital to maintaining robust safety standards.
Why attend?
Hazards 36 offers a unique opportunity to connect with the international process safety community, strengthen your professional network, and engage in informed technical discussion. The programme is designed to support engineers and safety specialists in managing major hazards through practical, hard-won experience.
Key themes for 2026
- Good practice: developing actionable strategies to embed and sustain high-level safety standards across your organisation.
- Executive leadership: examining the essential influence that leadership holds in driving effective, consistent safety management.
- Innovation & transition: addressing the practical implications of emerging technologies, including the technical demands of decarbonisation, digitalisation, and the energy transition.
- Cross-sector learning: Sharing real-world case studies to tackle industry-wide safety challenges as a collective community.
- Managing major hazards in new energy systems: navigating the specific safety risks associated with hydrogen, LNG, batteries, and CCUS to maintain process integrity throughout the transition to new infrastructure.
- Climate resilience and operational integrity: protecting your assets and supply chains against the risks posed by extreme weather and changing climate patterns to ensure long-term, robust risk management.
Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or new to the field, the conference provides a platform to explore the full spectrum of process safety. Benefit from technical presentations, strategic plenary sessions, and Q&A forums that turn past lessons into future resilience.
Previous years have sold out. Find out more and book your place at www.icheme.org/hazards36
