Building Safety Week is an annual global discussion about safety for people everywhere in the structures where they live, work, play, study and worship. Its purpose is to call public attention to methods, technologies and policies that prevent harm, safety relating to structures, plumbing, fire, energy efficiency and the environment. It is also designed to alert officials, the news media, educators and citizens to the essential protective role of safety code officials whose responsibility it is to implement the safety codes that prevent harm. These “First Preventers” do their most valuable work in heading off threats to lives and property in virtually all aspects of modern human existence. Every jurisdiction selects and adopts the mix of safety codes appropriate to its needs. Building Safety Week is the collective celebration of the progress that has been made and the improvements that are achievable now and in the future.
The 2008 Building Safety Week proclamation is available in the following languages:
