Center for Hydrogen Safety Announces Zalosh Safety Awards

The Center for Hydrogen Safety (CHS) - an AIChE technical community and a global organization leading the safe advancement of hydrogen as the next-generation fuel - has created a slate of prizes that will spotlight significant contributions to safety practices within the hydrogen industry.

The Robert Zalosh Hydrogen Safety Excellence Awards will recognize excellence in three categories of achievement: individual, project, and organization. Nominations for the inaugural awards are due on October 31, 2024, with the first prizes slated for presentation at a CHS or AIChE event in 2025.

The awards are named for Robert Zalosh (1944-2023), an AIChE Fellow and Professor Emeritus at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and commemorate his lasting impact on hydrogen and fuel cell safety. Robert was an incident investigator for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board and a member of the Hydrogen Safety Panel that assisted the U.S. Dept. of Energy and the Center for Hydrogen Safety. Within AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), he contributed extensively to the annual Loss Prevention Symposium, and he was the principal author of the first edition of the CCPS book "Guidelines for Safe Handling of Powders and Bulk Solids."

The individual Zalosh Hydrogen Safety Excellence Awards will recognize people who have made major contributions to hydrogen safety during their careers. The team project prizes will honor groups that have completed particularly impactful initiatives. The awards for organizations will highlight academic institutions, companies, government entities, or other organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to hydrogen safety.

To file an online nomination for an individual, project team, or organization, visit the CHS website at www.aiche.org/CHS. Additional information is available at [email protected].

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