VBSF symposium 2025: Fire protection meets occupational safety
Collect further education points, experience 10 lectures and 2 workshops, visit 16 exhibitors - and all in a stylish atmosphere. On March 20, 2025, fire protection experts and occupational safety managers will come together at the KKL Lucerne. The symposium will be divided into two parallel themed tracks.
Occupational safety and fire protection are often concerned with similar issues - but they often have conflicting objectives. It therefore makes sense for fire safety experts and occupational safety managers to regularly exchange information and develop solutions together.
They do this in the VBSF, the Swiss Association of Fire Protection and Safety Professionals, among others. Its members include many fire protection specialists as well as many occupational safety experts.
Fire protection meets occupational safety
It will be exactly the same on March 20, 2025 at the KKL Lucerne. The VBSF Conference 2025 will take place there, which is aimed at all those interested in fire protection and occupational safety, regardless of whether they are VBSF members or not.
Participants can look forward to a total of ten lectures, each between 30 and 60 minutes long, as well as two workshops of 90 and 120 minutes each. All presentations and one workshop will be bilingual and translated from German into French. There are also continuing education credits for participation: Swiss Safety Center AG counts the event as one day of continuing education for specialists in fire protection ISO 17024. The VKF recognizes the VBSF symposium as 1 day of further training. The SGAS awards 2 continuing education points for the occupational safety track.
The theme tracks
The VBSF Conference 2025 is divided into two parallel tracks. Participants can follow an entire track or choose which parallel presentations they would like to attend.
Track occupational safety:
- Workshop on digital tools for occupational health and safety. (Marco Lobsiger; Managing Director of Lobsiger & Partner GmbH
- First aid concepts in the company (Bruno Ducceschi, Vice President of the Swiss Association for Company First Aid)
- Laboratory guideline and hazardous substances - practical application examples: (Thomas Plattner, safety engineer EigV, project manager and partner RISAM AG)
- CMR substances - carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction (Andrea Zemp, Consultant AS & GS and IRM, Swiss Safety Center AG)
- Small quantities of solvents (Felix Gell, consultant and owner of Gsell Sicherheit GmbH)
- First responder systems in Switzerland (Roman Burkart, Managing Director of the Interverband für Rettungswesen IVR and President of the Swiss Resuscitation Council SRC)
The track fire protection:
- Workshop: Fire protection planning; SHEVS with special issues or façades with additional benefits for PV systems or greening (Christian Kohler and Alois Schälin; AFC Academy / AFC AG)
- How do fire alarm systems and technical evacuation systems go together? (Kurt Girschweiler, Head of Product Line Fire, Siemens Schweiz AG)
- Fire protection for electric vehicles in buildings (Mario Venturini, fire protection expert and Managing Director of Sintegral.ch GmbH)
- Fires involving electric vehicles in (underground) parking garages (Jan Bauke, Head of Training FWZS, Deputy Commander FW, Protection & Rescue Zurich)
- Fire risk from home storage systems - challenges and prevention strategies (Marion Meinert, Professor of Safety & Security, Furtwangen University)
Fire protection meets occupational safety at KKL Lucerne
The two tracks come together again at the end - namely when Jürg Schär (Head of Buildings & Safety at KKL Luzern) talks about occupational safety and fire protection at the venue of the VBSF Conference 2025. The KKL Luzern hosts concerts, congresses, a museum, restaurants and exhibitions, which means that different people are here at different times. So how are occupational safety and fire protection organized at KKL Luzern and what is important?
Accompanying exhibition and VBSF General Assembly 2025
There will also be an accompanying exhibition during the VBSF Conference 2025, where up to 16 exhibitors will present their products and services during the breaks. After the VBSF Conference 2025, the 47th VBSF General Assembly will take place from 4.50 p.m., followed by an aperitif, to which only VBSF members are admitted.
The VBSF Conference 2025 is organized by bentomedia GmbH and the online platform safety-security.ch and supported by various sponsors: Siemens Schweiz AG is a gold sponsor, while the AFC Academy, CSF Wunderle GmbH and Lobisger & Partner GmbH with the web application safely are silver sponsors. They are joined by bronze sponsors Flumroc AG, Routil AG, Promat AG and TOTEC Innovation SA.
Source: www.vbsf.ch
