2025 SAFE FROM HATE SUMMIT:
Changing Construction Workplace Culture
Friday, January 24th, 2025
8:30 am - 3:45 pm
NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center
16021 NE Airport Way
Portland, Oregon 97230
The Safe From Hate Summit is back in 2025 and we are excited to re-engage with our community to move forward in our collective work to ensure all jobsites in our region and industry are safe and respectful for all workers, and freer from harassment, hazing, bullying, and retaliation.
The Safe From Hate Summit was born out of the work of the Safe From Hate Alliance, which came together following an incident from May of 2020 in which a noose was found on a downtown Portland construction site. Since that time, with leadership from the Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity (MAWE), community, and industry, dozens of stakeholders have signed the Safe From Hate Jobsite Culture Pledge. The pledge commits signers to enforce a zero-tolerance policy when workers initiate or fail to report job site discrimination. It also commits them to hold job site trainings fostering a positive work environment and to hire a diverse workforce and to get more minority workers into leadership positions.
The vision is to address psychological safety as earnestly as the industry has addressed physical safety, through the development of respectful workplace programming as part of a comprehensive safety plan. The outcome is the active recruitment, retention, and mentorship of diverse workers and the intentional advancement of women and people of color into field leadership positions.
More information about the 2025 Safe From Hate Summit will be coming soon...
To learn more about the Safe from Hate Alliance work and meetings, please email Kelly Haines at: khaines@worksystems.org
Safe From Hate Resources:
RISE Up Worker Orientation Video - PDXNext
Safe from Hate Alliance Pledge
2022 Tradesworker Equity Council Recommendations to Industry
Respectful Workplace Review Committee Recommendations Report
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