Construction Safety Week has long been a powerful show of force—a catalyst for bringing the industry together and focusing on the critical importance of health and safety. Over the last decade, we’ve made meaningful strides: advancing best practices, transitioning from hard hats to helmets, shedding light on vital issues such as mental health, fostering a culture of care and accountability and creating partnerships and initiatives that improve jobsite safety.
Building on the progress we’ve made, we’ve launched a bold five-year vision to bring everyone together with trust and respect and to drive alignment in how safety is understood, owned and engineered at every step of the project. This is an industrywide effort to further deepen the culture of care centered around respect for the skilled craft and through all aspects of a project where all team members share this responsibility, this respect, across every phase: design, planning, construction and beyond.
This year’s theme builds on the momentum of 2025’s “All In Together” and focuses on three key pillars: Recognize, Respond and Respect. It is anchored in a unified call to action on high-energy, high-hazard work to prevent serious injuries and fatalities at every phase of a project. When everyone acts with shared purpose and uses aligned terminology, we create the conditions for lasting change and safer outcomes across every role and every jobsite.
As part of the 2026 campaign, Construction Safety Week will introduce three targeted technical bulletins that align with the theme pillars of “Recognize, Respond and Respect.” Created in collaboration with the Safety Week Technical Committee and shaped with input from industry leaders, safety experts and skilled craft professionals, these bulletins reflect the shared responsibility to protect lives across every phase of the project. The bulletins will focus on fully recognizing, responding and respecting the complex high energy hazards teams face to proactively prevent serious injuries and fatalities. These bulletins will be made available on the safety week website as they are released.
As we embark on this next phase, we invite contractors to join the movement from May 4-8 and show their support for Construction Safety Week as we strive to create a universal safety culture. To learn more about how your company can participate, celebrate, show your support and register for Safety Week 2026, visit www.constructionsafetyweek.com/about-us/support-safety-week/.
Whether by participating in events, hosting safety stand-downs or downloading free tools and planning guides, every contribution moves our shared mission forward. Learn more about the variety of tools Construction Safety Week offers for companies to utilize throughout the year by heading to our website: www.constructionsafetyweek.com/plan-for-safety-week/resources/.
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