This Symposium was started from the first symposium in 1996, in Bergen, Norway. It was established by incorporating the Seventh International Colloquium on Dust Explosions (The first five were held in Poland: Baranow (1984), Jadwisin (1986), Szczyrk (1988), Porabka-Kozubnik (1990), Pultusk (1993), and then Shenyang, China (1994)) and the Second Colloquium on Gas, Vapor, Liquid, Hybrid and Fuel–Air Explosions (The First Colloquium was held in Montreal, Canada (1981)).

The symposium continued with the
2^nd in Schaumburg, USA (1998),
3^rd in Tsukuba, Japan (2000),
4^th in Bourges, France (2002),
5^th in Cracow, Poland (2004),
6^th in Halifax, Canada (2006),
7^th in St. Petersburg, Russia (2008),
8^th in Yokohama, Japan (2010),
9^th in Cracow, Poland (2012),
10^th in Bergen, Norway (2014),
11^th in Dalian, China (2016) and the
12^th in Kansas City, USA (2018).