Ready to stand down? Construction Safety Week kicks off.

Building Security Week begins Monday by calling on contractors to recommit to employee well being and well-being, in keeping with a brand new launch from the occasion’s organizers.

The development {industry}’s annual week-long, safety-focused occasion is partnering with OSHA and its Nationwide Security Stand-Down initiative to assist forestall falls in building, a number one reason for jobsite harm. This joint effort encourages firms to pause work websites all through the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, Might 7, or every time potential through the week to create the most important industry-wide security stand-down ever held.

The 2025 Building Security Week theme, All in Collectively, is designed to attach and strengthen the message all through the {industry}. The initiative contains associated content material for firms to plan actions, conversations and demonstrations with their groups.

“This yr, our theme, All in Collectively, demonstrates that security on a jobsite is greater than a person duty; it is a collective effort,” mentioned Mike Choutka, Hensel Phelps CEO and 2025 Security Week Chair, within the launch. “We encourage everybody to hold the spirit of Building Security Week ahead by upholding the very best security requirements year-round.”

Security Week was based in 2014 by members of the Building Business Security Initiative and the Incident & Harm Free Govt Discussion board and contains 70 of the highest contractors within the {industry}, representing hundreds of staff. 

Free resources are available on the Building Security Week web site and embrace promotional supplies, dialogue subjects, occasion concepts, movies and supplies translated into Spanish and French.