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