The 38th Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health Fair – 112 EXPO was closed. It fulfilled its social/safety, commercial/economic and humanitarian mission, which was also confirmed by both local and international exhibitors.

Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia, more precisely its Emergency Management Department, as well as the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy of the Republic of Serbia, i.e. their Occupational Safety and Health Directorate, are very meritorious for the Fair to be the place showing and checking anything done against more frequent unpredictable, extraordinary, lethal and catastrophic situations and events. They have shown quite clearly that citizens, business entities and the whole society are not unprotected or left to themselves event in the most difficult situations or in the cases they are victims of their own not so rare negligence.

Direct participants and exhibitors were proved as pragmatic business partners, not even prevented by the crisis to feature their products and services in the market, bearing in mind the educational role and humanity.

The figures show also the business enthusiasm power, which was not missing at the 112 EXPO. Among the business visitors at the 112 EXPO, there were 11 percent of CEOs, 15 percent of Fire Protection Department Managers, 20 percent of Occupational Safety and Health Department Managers, 11 percent of Designers, 5 percent of System Engineers, 2 percent of Supply Officers, 1 percent of firemen/rescue officers, 2 percent of Security Department Managers, whereas there were 33 percent of others within the business visitors.

As regarding the activity fields they came from, there were 20 percent of business visitors from Governmental Administration and Trade Associations, 16 percent of Designers, 11 percent of manufacturers, 5 percent of installers, 4 percent of distributors, 16 percent of safety system and service users, whereas the remaining 28 percent belong to some of many other branches.

And what was in the focus of their interest? For 27 percent of them it was the place of work and product safety, for 16 percent the occupational safety and 10 percent were focused to the health at work, rescue, the medical first aid and (para)medical equipment. 9 percent of them put on the first place of their interest the structural fire protection, as well as the starting fire extinguishing devices and equipment and the equipment for work with hazardous matters, respectively. For event 7 percent of the business visitors, the first ones on the priority list were stable firefighting systems (installations and systems), for 6 percent of them these were technical and operational fire protection and for 5 percent of them those attention worth were firefighting and rescue vehicles. The others spread their interests like this: 4 percent of them focused their interest on the emergency responding devices and equipment, 3 percent of them to the measurement and detection devices under emergency situations, 2 percent of them to the prevention data protection and recovery under emergency situations and one percent to the 112 Integrated Emergency Management System and the ambulance vehicles under the emergency situations, respectively.

Each visitor of the 112 EXPO Fair saw, heard or found out something new he/she will not forget.