Construction Safety Week's New Vision Promoted
A New Five-Year Plan for an Industrywide Effort to Further to Unify Everyone's Approach to a Strong Safety Culture
Adam Jelen, president and CEO of Gilbane Building Company, writing for Construction Executive, discusses Construction Safety Week’s new five-year plan as well as plans for the 2026 Construction Safety Week campaign May 4-8, 2026.
From the article:
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.