HySafe organises the worldwide unique biennial International Conference on Hydrogen Safety ICHS. Since 2005 this focussed event succeeded in attracting the world’s leading experts, by providing an open platform for the presentation and discussion of new findings, information and data on hydrogen safety – covering the wide range of areas from basic and applied research and development to standardization and regulations.

For the ICHS 2025 edition, at the moment there are the following endorsements:

The first ICHS was organised in Pisa, Italy 2005, hosted by University of Pisa. The 2nd ICHS took place in San Sebastian, Spain 2007, hosted by INASMET. The 3rd conference was organised in Ajaccio, Corsica, France 2009 and was hosted by CEA. The 4th in 2011 was held in San Francisco, USA. The host was Sandia National Laboratories. The 5th ICHS (ICHS2013) was held in Brussels with strong support from the European Commission and the 6th edition was held on October 14-17, 2015, in Yokohama, Japan. In 2017 the conference was hosted by KIT in Hamburg, Germany, and in 2019 the South Australian government invited the community to Adelaide for the 8th edition. The 9th edition in 2021 was held in Edinburgh (virtual edition), under the auspices of Scottish Government, and finally, the 10th edition in 2023 in Quebec, under the auspices of the Quebec government.

This unique international meeting point and information exchange platform is open to all hydrogen safety stakeholders – from research, surveillance, authorities, standards developing organisations, industry, insurance companies to funding agencies. Therefore and with the free publication of all conference contributions and the worldwide endorsements the ICHS in fact defines and documents the development of the state-of-the-art in hydrogen safety.

Besides organising the ICHS, the educational and PR committees of  HySafe organise educational courses for academic participants, like PhD students, post-docs or professors (teach the teacher) and training courses with a focus on industry relevant aspects on the other side. For example, HySafe established the first curriculum for hydrogen safety engineering  and provided major support for the European Technical School for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells of the H2FC Infrastructure project. At major hydrogen, fuel cell conferences, like the WHEC, HySafe organises special sessions on hydrogen safety to present the state-of-the-art and current priorities to a wide audience.