NAXSA Hosts 2025 Shore Up for Safety Week
The North American Excavation Shoring Association (NAXSA) mobilized thousands of workers and employers nationwide for its third annual Shore Up for Safety Week, May 5-9, 2025. The weeklong event promotes safety awareness and training through hands-on activities with excavation shoring customers, contractors, and crews.
This year, more than 435 events took place across the country, where thousands of employers and workers received the vital training and resources they need to return to their jobsites – and coworkers – as lifesavers.
“We hear a lot about the bottom line in the construction industry,” said NAXSA President, Ryan Jaffe as the results of 2025 events were gathered, “At NAXSA, our bottom line is zero injuries and fatalities in excavation trenching operations.”
“It just so happens that moving toward zero also improves the bottom line for contractors,” Jaffe adds. “Ours is an industry where one entirely preventable tragic injury or fatality can devastate or destroy a contractor’s business as well as the lives of coworkers, friends, and family of the innocent victim.”
Each spring, during Construction Safety Week, NAXSA members and colleagues log on to NAXSA’s website (naxsa.org) to access a concise Toolkit packed with everything they need to mount successful Shore Up for Safety Week events. Tips, topics, steps, ideas, even access to nearby NAXSA member experts, are a click away. Printable hand-outs, certificates of participation, and order forms for Shore Up for Safety hardhat stickers make it easy to plan and deliver a week’s worth of outreach and hands-on safety practices, leaving a lasting legacy at every worksite reached.
NAXSA received orders for 25,000 hardhat stickers before 2025 events began. The stickers give workers QR code access to safety answers and experts, out in the field, right from their worksite.
NAXSA was created to promote the safe and efficient use of excavation shoring practices. It represents manufacturers, engineers, rental companies/distributors, universities/educators, associates/suppliers, and government agency representatives who share the common goal of maintaining safety in the excavation shoring industry with the result of zero deaths and injuries.
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