People who talk about safety are often referring to a personal feeling. Anyone who does not feel that they are in danger is “safe”. The accident at Fukushima has robbed many people of this safety. Couldn’t the events that took place in Japan also happen at any time in Switzerland? Safety is ENSI’s core mission. […]

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Jürg Schmid was appointed Vice-Chairman of the ENSI Board by the Federal Council on 1 January 2012. He was a board member for the previous term from 2008 to 2011. Between 2008 and 2014 he was CEO of Schmid & Ernst Safety-Coaching. In this role he advised a wide range of companies in the aviation […]

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Hans-Jürgen Pfeiffer was born on 3 May 1943 in Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) specialising in nuclear physics from where he also obtained his doctorate with a work on particle physics. He then spent 2 years at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. […]

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Werner Bühlmann was appointed as a member of the ENSI Board on 1 January 2012. After his retirement at the end of May 2011, he worked as an expert consultant for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) between June and December 2012. Between April 1980 and his retirement at the end of May 2012, […]

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Pierre Steiner (1943). EUR ING and graduate electrical engineer: From 1967 – 1989, he worked in R&D and in the planning, construction and maintenance of national telecommunication networks in Switzerland, Africa, South America and Asia. From 1990–1996, he was Director of Pro Telecom, the Swiss telecom association. From 1997–2004, he was Deputy Secretary General of […]

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