Communicators Kit for CSPW 2024!
This kit contains essential assets for promoting Construction Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 9-13, 2024). Use these materials to ensure consistent messaging across all channels. For questions, contact isabelle@constructionsuicideprevention.com.
Call to action (from employer to employees): Join the industry for a week of action to save lives.
Key messaging (to customize and use in emails, newsletters, social posts, etc.): Sept. 9-13 is Construction Suicide Prevention Week — a week dedicated to raising awareness about the higher-than-average number of suicides in the construction industry, and to providing resources to help prevent those deaths.
[Company name] will be participating in activities throughout the week with the goal of providing resources, helping our team become more comfortable with conversations about mental health, and, ultimately, saving lives. In addition to [themed toolbox talks, opportunities to join employee resources groups,] and more, we hope you will join us on Monday, Sept. 9 for one minute of silence during the first-ever, nationwide stand-down to honor all lives lost to suicide. Look for signs around the jobsite/workplace for the time this will take place, and please feel encouraged to print this sign to honor someone in your life.
Together, we can save lives.
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Call to action (from organization to members/network): Register your organization’s participation in Construction Suicide Prevention Week.
Key messaging (to customize and use in emails, newsletters, social posts, etc.): Sept. 9-13 is Construction Suicide Prevention Week — a week dedicated to raising awareness about the higher-than-average number of suicides in the construction industry, and to providing resources to help prevent those deaths.
Every year, during September — National Suicide Prevention Month — the construction industry dedicates a week to raising awareness about the unique challenges workers face in construction that lead to suicide and what we can do to prevent it. Use the CSPW resources to plan activities with your workers during Construction Suicide Prevention Week, and register your company’s participation to receive an OSHA-recognized, industry-endorsed certificate of participation and electronic badge.
No matter how you decide to participate, we hope you will join us on Monday, Sept. 9 for one minute of silence during the first-ever, nationwide stand-down to honor all lives lost to suicide.
Please take 60 second to register your company’s participation. Registration helps us track how far the CSPW message is reaching, the type of resources needed to support CSPW activities, and where we need to focus our energy to make an impact.
Together, we can save lives.
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