The Safety Stand-Down, originally scheduled for May 4-8, 2020, has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will be rescheduled this summer.  In the meantime, we encourage you to remember that falls are still the leading hazard in construction and should be an area of focus year-round.  Visit the Stop Construction Falls website for tools and resources that can be used anytime, including a number of videos and webinars that can be used as part of virtual training efforts.

Updates on the Stand-Down, along with new materials, will be added to the site when available.  CPWR’s 2020 Hardhat Sticker order form has been closed temporarily, but will be re-opened when we are able to resume shipping.

For more information on COVID-19, including an up-to-date Guidance Document for the construction industry, visit www.cpwr.com/covid-19.

From the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention
https://mailchi.mp/32e4c3444860/mental-health-protection-resources-during-covid-19?e=7fc6ab83f0 

During these rapidly changing, unpredictable and stressful times, adapting business operations to stay viable and keeping our employees safe from COVID-19 are top of mind and demanding great attention.  What can’t be forgotten is the impact these events are having on the mental health of our employees and the potential risk for suicide related to situations like this.  Protecting the emotional well being of our teams needs to be given as a high of priority as protecting their physical health.

To help you in providing the help they need, we have created a resource page with tools and information to build the protective factors into your COVID-19 response plans that will help protect your employee’s mental health.  As more become available we will post them, so please check back often.  And, please share these resources with others to help ensure protection of the entire workforce.

If you have not already taken the pledge to STAND up for Suicide Prevention, there is no better time than now to declare your commitment to full worker safety.   Taking the pledge not only demonstrates your support but ensures you will continue to receive updates and resources as a CIASP stakeholder.

Wishing you health and safety.

Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention
191 Clarksville Road
Princeton Junction, NJ 08550
info@preventconstructionsuicide.com
609-799-4900

In response to questions from those in the construction industry, CPWR has developed guidance on COVID-19 as well as a webpage with relevant resources on the coronavirus. Both will be updated regularly as we learn more.

From Tonya Ford, Executive Director, United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities
USMWF.ORG, Inc

Good Afternoon Everyone,

We hope this message finds everyone safe and well.

As we all know usually this time of year is very busy preparing for the upcoming Workers’ Memorial Day Events.  However, do to the unforeseen circumstances of COVID-19, we know that this may have changed and/or postponed many upcoming events including Workers’ Memorial Day.

Our top priority is to make sure that everyone is safe and healthy during this time therefore we too have postponed and/or canceled our events however, did not want this day to go unnoticed.

We would like to invite you all to join us on April 28, 2020 at 7pm cst.  in the comfort of your home to honor, remember and recognize our fallen workers by going to https://www.facebook.com/USMWF  as we will be hosting on Facebook LIVE, USMWF’s First National Workers’ Memorial Day Ceremony.

From Milwaukee Tools: COVID-19 Tool Cleaning Protocols