Bring Struck-by Awareness Week to your workplace

IHSA is promoting Struck-by Awareness Week from April 21 to 25, 2025, to help prevent struck-by incidents at workplaces across the province.

Ontario’s prevention system uses the term “struck-by” to describe the injuries that occur when workers are hit—or struck—by tools, materials, equipment, or vehicles. Just like falls, struck-by incidents are a leading cause of injuries and fatalities in the construction, transportation, electrical utilities, and aggregates industries. Struck-by incidents are also preventable.

You can bring Struck-by Awareness Week to your workplace in a few different ways:

• Use IHSA’s Struck-by prevention toolkit (W017) and the campaign schedule to plan daily activities.
• Organize a site safety stand down with a focus on site-specific struck-by hazards and how to effectively control them.
• Plan a moment of silence to pay respect to the workers who didn’t return home after a workplace incident.

The Struck-by prevention toolkit (W017) contains essential IHSA resources for preventing struck-by incidents, including safety talks, guidelines, advisories, manuals, training courses, and videos, as well as articles from IHSA Health and Safety Magazine and episodes from the IHSA Safety Podcast. These resources can help you control struck-by hazards at your workplace, develop site-specific struck-by awareness training, and engage your team in a conversation about struck-by hazards.

Learn more about Struck-by Awareness Week 2025 and download the Struck-by prevention toolkit (W017) now.