EIGA Summer Summit 2024

04 June 2024

INTRODUCTION

EIGA Summer Summits are always close to my heart: the event does not only mark our General Assembly, which is in itself an important milestone in the year; the event is above all the opportunity to celebrate:

Celebrate our main focus, i.e. safety . And I could not be prouder to report 77 safety certificates for accident-free sites.

Celebrate innovation - another pillar of EIGA is its technology focus. 7 more awards were granted for innovation, safety and environment.

And most importantly, celebrate our Members!
Thank you for joining us in Prague. We had 130 participants from 20 countries.
You may find the pictures here .

Philippe Cornille, EIGA General Secretary

EIGA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The EIGA Summer Sessions bring together senior management of our members to discuss statutes, budgets and strategies for the association.

Exclusively for members, this event offers an optimal environment for high-level engagement. Over the course of just a few days, a packed agenda features meetings of the Board, Chairs of the four Councils, and of the General Assembly.

The 2025 budget was confirmed, and 2025 membership fees were frozen to the same levels as for 2024.See the draft minutes here (after login to the EIGA extranet).

EIGA AWARDS

The criteria to allocate the awards are defined in a publication accessible through the extranet.
The pictures of the award winners are available here.
Congratulations !

Working Group Awards

EIGA has over 300 experts from Member Companies participating in more than 50 Work Groups. The Working Group Award is given to the Working Group or Ad Hoc Group in recognition of its achievements in quality, effectiveness and team work.

This year, the award goes to AHG-4.10 – ISO TC158
ISO 6142-2 has been…

The Road Safety Awards are assigned in 4 categories. The company obtaining the lowest preventable road vehicle accidents frequency rate for the period January to December will receive the appropriate category of the EIGA Annual Road Safety Award.

Cylinder transport for less than 2 million km driven ; the award goes to LINDE…

The Company Safety Awards are assigned in 3 categories. Per category, the member company which has the lowest recorded employee recordable work injury rate shall receive an award for this achievement

Category 1 ; the Award goes to LINDE GmbH, Linde Gas Deutschland.

Category 2 ; the Award goes to LINDE GAS ESPAÑA…

The EIGA Environmental Award recognises best environmental practice and is also designed to encourage EIGA member companies to look to promote best practice, learn and adopt new ideas that benefit their business, the environment and the communities they work in.

We have two Awards this year 🙂

The EIGA Safety Innovation Award recognises best health and safety practices.
This year's winner is "Handling by robot and cobot in specialty filling plant" by SIAD.

EIGA issues Safety Awards to Member Company sites achieving the number of worked hours, or a certain number of consecutive years, without a recordable work injury to any of its employees or contractors.

This year, 77 so called Zero Accident Awards – Location were awarded for 9 groups of companies

The European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA)

EIGA – is a safety and technically oriented organisation representing the vast majority of European and also non-European companies producing and distributing industrial, medical and food gases. The member companies closely co-operate in technical and safety matters to achieve the highest level of safety and environmental care in the handling of gases. EIGA is in frequent touch with Standardisation and Regulatory Organisations and Authorities as well as trade and industrial organisations. EIGA’s membership comprises European companies that produce or distribute industrial and/or medical gases. As such, EIGA itself does not produce or market industrial or medical gases.

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EIGA Summer Summit 2024

04 June 2024

INTRODUCTION

EIGA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

EIGA AWARDS

Working Group Awards

Road Safety Award

Company Safety Award

Environmental Award

Safety Innovation Award

Zero Accident Awards

The European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA)

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL GASES ASSOCIATION AISBL