About Building Safety Month
Building Safety Month is an international campaign that takes place in May to raise awareness about building safety. This campaign reinforces the need for the adoption of modern, regularly-updated building codes, and helps individuals, families and businesses understand what it takes to create safe and sustainable structures.
The International Code Council, its members, and a diverse partnership of professionals from the building construction, design and safety communities come together with corporations, government agencies, professional associations and nonprofits to promote building safety through proclamations, informational events, legislative briefings and more. We come together to support Building Safety Month because we understand the need for safe and sustainable structures where we live, work and play.
All communities need building codes to protect their citizens from disasters like fires, weather-related events and structural collapse. Building codes are society's best way of protecting homes, offices, schools, manufacturing facilities, stores and entertainment venues. Code officials work day in and day out to keep the public safe.
History
For the last 42 years, we have celebrated advances in constructing safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient buildings and homes. The ongoing support of Building Safety Month and the important role code officials play in public safety in the built environment has come from U.S. presidents, governors, mayors, county executives, other government officials and construction industry professionals.
Building Safety Month 2022 Recap
The 2022 Building Safety Month theme was, “Safety For All: Building Codes in Action.”
Over 310 jurisdictions and organizations issued proclamations proclaiming May 2022 Building Safety Month including U.S. President Biden, for the second year in a row. View the proclamation for National Building Safety Month, here.
The Code Council hosted five virtual events on various topics with over 778 attendees. The Building Safety Month celebration also took place on social media with the hashtag #BuildingSafetyMonth365 being used more than 1,707 times.
In 2022, the Building Safety Month campaign had:
Global Partners
Building Safety Month started as a U.S. campaign 42 years ago. Today it’s celebrated worldwide.
Jurisdictions and organizations outside the U.S. that actively support local Building Safety Month activities include:
If you’d like to be an international partner, download our kit here.