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JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 1 TO MAY 7, 2016 AS MAINE SAFETY WEEK
WHEREAS, every year, more than 80,000 workers suffer injuries on construction job sites across the United States and one injury is one too many; and
WHEREAS,  safety should be the number one focus in the construction industry; and
WHEREAS,  over 40 national and global construction firms constituting the Construction Industry Safety Initiative, or CISI, and the Incident and Injury-Free, or IIF, Executive Forum have joined forces to inspire everyone in the construction industry to be leaders in safety; and
WHEREAS,  Pittsfield-based Cianbro is one of the companies that have helped make Safety Week 2016 possible; and
WHEREAS,  companies across the country have banded together to create and celebrate Safety Week 2016, running from Monday, May 2nd, to Friday, May 6th; and
WHEREAS,  the mission for Safety Week 2016 is for companies to act together to thank workers for supporting safety, to emphasize the need to be injury-free, to recognize workers' efforts to be injury-free, to increase awareness of the importance of being committed to safety every day, to share best practices, to strengthen the construction industry's safety culture and to conduct on-site safety awareness activities; and
WHEREAS,  expanding the focus of Safety Week 2016 to encompass not just safety issues pertaining to the construction industry but safety issues more generally would benefit citizens of the State as well as for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations throughout the State; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That We, the Members of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Legislature now assembled in the Second Regular Session, on behalf of the people we represent, take this opportunity to proclaim May 1 to May 7, 2016 Maine Safety Week and urge citizens of the State to use safe practices at the workplace, in the home and on the road; and be it further
RESOLVED: That suitable copies of this resolution, duly authenticated by the Secretary of State, be transmitted to the corporate offices of Cianbro in Pittsfield.