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“…"The TUV Saarland Foundation for Technical Safety has succeeded in winning more than 80 top level experts for a world congress with the goal to define the state of the art and to show new developments in Technical Safety in the five important sections of technology: - Energy (mining, electricity and heat generation, waste treatment) - Transportation (earth-bound, air, sea) - Production (chemical/mechanical processes, automation) - ICT (information and communication technology) - Medical, biological and genetic technologies In recognition of the fact that the "Safety of modern technical systems" depends on the successful interdisciplinary co-operation of experts, safety issues out of the above mentioned fields of technology will be treated from five different academic points of view: - Engineering and natural sciences - Medicine/Psychology/Sociology - Philosophy/Theology - Legal Aspects - Business Administration/Management The results of the congress will be given to the public as a "Saarbruecken Declaration onTechnical Safety". …”