Related Builders and Contractors (ABC) launched its 2025 Well being and Security Efficiency Report, an annual information to building jobsite well being and security finest practices. ABC revealed the report forward of Development Security Week 2025, Could 5-9, to help its industry-wide name to motion for safer jobsites and a stronger security tradition.
The report exhibits the optimistic impacts of building firms collaborating in ABC’s STEP Well being and Security Administration System, which allows top-performing ABC members to attain incident charges 658 % safer than the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ building {industry} common, decreasing whole recordable incident charges by 85 %, in keeping with ABC. Established in 1989, STEP offers contractors and suppliers with a framework for measuring well being and security information and benchmarking with friends within the {industry}.
“Reworking the established order to set the expectation that every one incidents are preventable creates a tradition the place well being and security are elevated to core values, an ethical obligation for employers and staff,” says Greg Sizemore, ABC vice chairman of well being, security, setting, and workforce improvement. “Priorities change ceaselessly, however values stay constant. The instruments in ABC’s security report draw the blueprint for {industry} leaders and staff to create a tradition of well being and security, win and ship work to communities with out incident, and shield the development {industry}’s most useful useful resource: its workforce.”
ABC’s analysis on greater than 1 billion work hours accomplished by individuals within the building, heavy building, civil engineering, and specialty trades in 2024 recognized the next foundations of industry-leading security finest practices:
- New rent security orientation: Corporations that conduct an in-depth orientation of latest staff into well being and security tradition, techniques, and processes expertise whole recordable incident charges (TRIR) 52 % decrease than firms that restrict their orientations to fundamental well being and security compliance matters. Moreover, days away, restricted, or transferred (DART) charges have been lowered by 56 %.
- Substance abuse prevention applications: Strong substance abuse prevention applications and insurance policies with provisions for drug and alcohol testing, the place permitted, led to a 52 per cent discount in TRIR and a 55 % discount in DART charges.
- Frequency of “toolbox” talks: Corporations that conduct every day, 15-minute to 30-minute “toolbox” talks lowered TRIR charges by 78 % and DART charges by 79 % in comparison with firms that held them month-to-month.
- Prime administration engagement: Employer involvement on the highest stage of firm administration in security finest practices produced a 49 % discount in TRIR and a 52 % discount in DART charges.
- Main indicators: Monitoring and reviewing actions carried out to forestall and management accidents, equivalent to security coaching, new rent security orientation, and substance abuse prevention, led to a 59 % discount in TRIR and a 60 % discount in DART charges.
“The 2025 Well being and Security Efficiency Report and STEP will assist any contractor or provider reinforce their dedication to the well-being of their workforce,” says Sizemore. “If we select to guide, if we select to commit and if we select to rework, collectively we are able to guarantee each building employee goes house safer, happier, more healthy and extra fulfilled each single day.”
