BEYOND COMPLIANCE: BUILDING A CULTURE OF CARE

The CIF Health & Safety Summit 2026, Beyond Compliance: Building a Culture of Care, is a dedicated summit for Ireland’s construction sector, focused on elevating health, safety, and welfare standards. The mission is to move past minimum requirements and foster a proactive culture where every worker’s well-being is a priority. Through collaboration, innovation, and leadership, we aim to create safer sites and healthier futures for all in the industry.

Expert speakers will highlight key areas of focus for improving safety on site, empowering leaders to set the tone for safe practices, ensuring teams work safely around critical risks, investing in the next generation of skilled and safety-conscious workers, identifying and managing the most dangerous tasks and conditions, and tackling the leading cause of fatalities in the industry. Leaders need to take decisive action to ensure that safety protocols are not just in place, but actively protecting every worker, every day. They need to create an environment where employees feel safe to speak up about mental health challenges without fear.

Health and wellbeing in construction remains a critical and evolving challenge. Investing in the next generation of skilled, safety-conscious workers is essential, requiring robust training pathways, and a culture that prioritises wellbeing from the outset of a career. At the same time, the sector must continue to identify and proactively manage the most dangerous tasks and conditions, using data, technology and risk-based approaches to prevent incidents before they occur. Addressing psychological and occupational health, critical risks and leadership in site safety together will be key to building a resilient workforce capable of meeting future infrastructure demands while protecting the people at the heart of the industry.

The Summit will also include interactive discussions in small working groups. Thematic roundtables will be moderated by seasoned industry experts and practitioners, they will address a compelling digital construction trend, emerging issues, industry challenges, emergency planning and more. This is your chance to join insightful discussions and workshops to align, share experiences and get new and actionable ideas from peers and experts.

So come along and join us in Croke Park on 6 May 2026 at the CIF Health & Safety Summit which sees Ireland’s construction sector coming together to discuss critical risks, share knowledge and to build a culture of care to protect all workers.