Over 400 attendees at CIF's Health and Safety Summit 2025

The Construction Industry Federation’s (CIF’s) annual Health and Safety Summit 2025 took place on Thursday, 1^st May 2025, at Croke Park.

Over 35 speakers presented on the main stage, across panels, and throughout roundtable breakout discussions. The summit saw over 400 industry professionals attend, of which 76% were decision makers.

With a strong focus on professionals with a responsibility for managing and organising health and safety in their organisation, the summit touched on key topics such as:

design safety management,
mental wellbeing,
sensitive and vulnerable work groups,
fairness, inclusion and respect,
emerging and evolving technologies,
education and training programmes,
making workplaces safer, healthier and more productive,
the impact of AI on construction safety; and
managing the hazards of respirable crystalline silica (RCS).

Kicking off at 8:00am with a welcome from the Chair Jonathan Healy, of Newstalk, the agenda was packed with insightful discussions and presentations, interspersed with networking during coffee and lunch breaks, as well as exhibition viewing in the main hallway from over 15 exhibitors.

Safety, Health and Wellbeing

The CIF actively promotes all-year-round health and safety in the construction industry. Every year, a Safety, Health and Wellbeing Calendar is published to address the key focus areas for the construction industry per quarter.

The intent is to promote a high level of focus on essential site safety considerations, as perceived by the CIF Safety and Health Subcommittee. The calendar endeavours to provide an itinerary of key diary events for each calendar month to reflect national and international campaigns for safety, health and wellbeing.

More information on health and safety can be found here, while the Safety, Health and Wellbeing Calendar 2025 can be found here. For health and safety training, the CIF provides an array of topics covered here.