(OSHA) Stand-Down safety events scheduled at more than 25,000 workplaces nationwide

One of six billboards posted in well-traveled areas of Arizona promotes OSHA's National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction. Dozens of billboards are going up in more than ten states across the country to support the campaign.

In hundreds of stand-down events happening across the country, employers and workers will pause their workday to talk about fall prevention in construction, and discuss topics like ladder safety, scaffolding safety and roofing work safety. Businesses, universities, faith-based groups, the U.S. Air Force and many others are joining together in record numbers for the week-long stand-down.

The University of Texas at Arlington is joining with OSHA's Dallas staff and Balfour Beatty to kick off events across the state of Texas. In Palo Alto, Calif., Clark Construction will be hosting a stand-down at the Stanford University Medical Center with OSHA staff in the Oakland area. OSHA officials will join racecar driver Greg Biffle at the Daytona Speedway in Jacksonville, Fla., to do a fall protection harness demonstration and discuss fall safety with construction workers. In Nebraska, OSHA Omaha staff is teaming with the Heartland Workers Center to host a free fall prevention event for the public at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.

For a complete list of stand-downs open to the public, visit OSHA's National Safety Fall-Down calendar of events.

Materials to use in stand-downs, including posters, factsheets, safety videos, stickers and tool box talks, can be found on OSHA's Fall Prevention Campaign Web page.