Industrial process safety is an important prerequisite for safeguarding the lives and health of the majority of practitioners and a cornerstone for promoting sustainable economic and social development. The International Conference on Industrial Process Safety and Thermal Analysis is an important international conference in the discipline of safety science and engineering, which has been successfully held twice since 2019, with a total of more than 20,000 experts and scholars from home and abroad participating in the online and offline conferences, greatly promoting the development of the field of safety and emergency response. The 3rd International Conference on Loss Prevention, Process Safety, and Thermal Analysis in Chemical and Coal Industries will be held in Hefei, China. The conference will be hosted by four institutions, including University of Science and Technology of China, Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Nanjing Tech University, and co-hosted by 11 institutions, including China University of Mining and Technology, and organized by University of Science and Technology of China. Welcome to Hefei, the city of science and innovation!