The CIF Health & Safety Summit 2025 will bring together Ireland’s construction sector to reinforce the importance for those in senior management positions, to ensure they are updated on legal compliance and standards to which they will be held, on health and safety. Guest speakers will discuss how collaboration with stakeholders is key to organising co-operation between designers to ensure co-ordination of their activities in relation to the design of the project, with a view to protecting the safety, health and welfare of persons involved in construction work.

Planning and implementing robust Design Safety Management significantly reduces the risks to safety, health and wellbeing during the construction stage and during subsequent use and maintenance. Design Safety can significantly impact project timelines, costs, and overall success. By focusing on safety and compliance construction companies can implement solid foundations to be more efficient and improve constructions principles. The project should be designed in such a way, by the Designer/PSDP to mitigate the risk so far as is reasonably practical at design stage. This is imperative to successfully reaching milestones and project deliverables.

Mental wellbeing, psychosocial risks and work-related stress are among the most challenging occupational safety and health concerns within the construction Industry. It is vital that the industry is aware of how to encourage best practice to its employees and provide the resources necessary to promote and monitor health for all including sensitive and vulnerable work groups.

Fairness, Inclusion & Respect. The CIF Safety Sub Committee understands the importance of diversity in the workplace. Empowering people by respecting and appreciating what makes them individual in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, and nation origin. We will hear first-hand from people on how with their companies’ support, they have successfully progressed their career in the construction industry.

Other topics will include the transformation and disruption in the adoption of new technologies, the challenge of ensuring that education and training programmes keep pace with changes, and the supply of a skilled workforce at all levels, from apprentices to researchers, across a wide range of disciplines.

Come along to network with other professionals before, during and after the event, as well exploring issues at our roundtable discussion session. Don’t miss the chance to gather, connect and collaborate with other thought leaders in the industry on topics such as, Making workplaces safer, healthier and more productive, The impact of AI on construction safety and Managing the hazards of respirable crystalline silica (RCS).