06-05-2025
Ready to stand down? Construction Safety Week kicks off.
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Construction Safety Week begins Monday by calling on contractors to recommit to worker health and well-being, according to a new release from the event's organizers.
The construction industry's annual week-long, safety-focused event is partnering with OSHA and its National Safety Stand-Down initiative to help prevent falls in construction, a leading cause of jobsite injury. This joint effort encourages companies to pause work sites throughout the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, May 7, or whenever possible during the week to create the largest industry-wide safety stand-down ever held.
The 2025 Construction Safety Week theme, All in Together, is designed to connect and strengthen the message throughout the industry. The initiative includes related content for companies to plan activities, conversations and demonstrations with their teams.
"This year, our theme, All in Together, demonstrates that safety on a jobsite is more than an individual responsibility; it's a collective effort," said Mike Choutka, Hensel Phelps CEO and 2025 Safety Week Chair, in the release. "We encourage everyone to carry the spirit of Construction Safety Week forward by upholding the highest safety standards year-round."
Safety Week was founded in 2014 by members of the Construction Industry Safety Initiative and the Incident & Injury Free Executive Forum and includes 70 of the top contractors in the industry, representing thousands of workers.
Free resources are available on the Construction Safety Week website and include promotional materials, discussion topics, event ideas, videos and materials translated into Spanish and French.
