The North American Excavation Shoring Association (NAXSA) has timed its inaugural Shore Up for Safety week to support National Construction Safety Week from May 1-5, 2023.

"NAXSA’s event is a week-long, nationwide mobilization of members and colleagues as lifesavers, promoting safety awareness and training through hands-on activities with customers, contractors, and crews,” said NAXSA President, Kevin Malloy. “The goal is to focus a full work week on reaching as many companies and workers as possible with critical information about the proper use of shoring systems — and to engage them in OSHA’s Subpart P to achieve NAXSA’s target of zero deaths and injuries."

Any excavation safety training, competent person class, toolbox talk, safety meeting, or presentation.Everyone who wants to put safety awareness back into job planning and be part of creating a change in job site safety culture. In short, everyone willing to play their part to stop unprotected trench fatalities.NAXSA has created Shore Up for Safety Week online resources, including a registration page from which participants can access a comprehensive toolkit with steps, tips, topics, hard hat stickers, and hand-outs. Seasoned trainers and educators can visit the site to download key items to print, use, and distribute.

Anyone new to hosting such events can download the full toolkit, including the Top 10 Reasons to Participate, suggested activities and a timeline, a link to NAXSA’s Local Media Relations Toolkit, hand-outs for training and education, and a set of thank you letters to accompany personalized Certificates of Participation that will be created by members (from NAXSA’s template) to congratulate every participant in each outreach activity — with all participants tallied for a final national count.

NAXSA also provides registered members with Shore Up for Safety stickers that deliver immediate access to safety answers and experts — a world of resources linked right to a worker’s hard hat — via a QR code that can be scanned with a mobile phone.

Shore Up for Safety materials position hosts, companies, and workers as positive, proactive lifesavers who will bring what they learn forward to help peers and meet challenges.