For several months, they made contacts with businesses and individuals interested in collaborating with the project and the publication and organization of the magazine. The first issue appeared in 1 May that year.

The magazine was received with enthusiasm, and its creators decided to set up an formal accident-prevention organization under the name CONALPRA as a private non-profit association, with technical and scientific purposes and no political affiliation, for the protection of industry and workers in general in Colombia.

CONALPRA quickly established itself, providing safety advice to its members in the following key areas:
Accident prevention.
Fire prevention.
Correction of risks, conservation and maintenance.
Education / propaganda.
Occupational medical and health services.

In 1957 the association changed its name in order to project an image closer to its objectives, to Consejo Colombiano de Seguridad Industrial. The intention was also to reach a wider public and to plant the word “safety” forcefully in people´s minds with its campaigns. Finally, in 1970, the CCS registered itself with its present name as a non-profit association.

CCS efforts to promote safety in industry in general had started back in 1957, with training programs, industry committees and meetings with safety managers in the major centers. In that year, the first Industrial Safety Congress was organized, and in 1958 the first National Safety Convention, in which the Ministry of Labor and representative organizations from the rest of Latin America took part.

Today, CCS has over 500 individual and corporate members. It is the leading organization in Colombia in the promotion of training, dissemination and advisory services in the area of industrial safety and health, and protection of the environment.