BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1H REFRESH-INTERVAL:P1H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T090000 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Business Over Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Join us for an important Business Over Breakfast as we raise awareness for Suicide Prevention Month. Construction has the highest suicide rate of any industry in the country. Most people in construction have already lost a friend\, family member\, or co-worker to suicide. It's not a comfortable topic\, and that's a big part of why it is challenging to talk about on jobsites. This session is a straight conversation about suicide and its impact on our industry. Mary Catherine Yates of Safety Consultants USA will cover what the numbers actually look like in construction\, why this industry gets hit harder than most\, and what the warning signs look like in the people you work around every day. She'll also get into what to do once you notice something including how to ask someone directly\, which is the part most people freeze up on. You'll walk out with things you can put in front of your crews right away:CIASP toolbox talks free\, and they update them regularly"Stronger Than the Silence\," a short video you can play at a safety meetingA free anonymous online screening tool your people can use on their own timeThe Stand Up for Suicide Prevention pledge You don't have to be a counselor to make a difference here. You just have to know what to look for and be willing to say something.\nBusiness Over Breakfast provides ABC of Georgia members on the business side of construction the opportunity to come together monthly to discuss ideas of common interest. Meeting topics are selected within a month of the meeting and will be updated accordingly. Interested in sponsoring breakfast? Email Austin Seamster (austin@abcga.org) Breakfast will be provided at the meeting! \nLocation: Associated Builders & Contractors of Georgia 8975 Roswell Rd Atlanta\, GA 30350 \nConsent for Use of Photographic Images Registration and attendance at\, or participation in\, ABC of Georgia meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ABC of Georgia's use and distribution (now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs\, videotapes\, electronic reproductions and audiotapes of such events and activities. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us for an important Business Over Breakfast as we raise awareness for Suicide Prevention Month. \;

Construction has the highest suicide rate of any industry in the country. Most people in construction have already lost a friend\, family member\, or co-worker to suicide. It'\;s not a comfortable topic\, and that'\;s a big part of why it is challenging to talk about on jobsites.

This session is a straight conversation about suicide and its impact on our industry.  \;Mary Catherine Yates of Safety Consultants USA will cover what the numbers actually look like in construction\, why this industry gets hit harder than most\, and what the warning signs look like in the people you work around every day. She'\;ll also get into what to do once you notice something &mdash\; including how to ask someone directly\, which is the part most people freeze up on.

You'\;ll walk out with things you can put in front of your crews right away:

You don'\;t have to be a counselor to make a difference here. You just have to know what to look for and be willing to say something.


Business Over Breakfast \;provides ABC of Georgia members on the business side of construction the opportunity to come together monthly to discuss ideas of common interest. \;

Meeting topics are selected within a month of the meeting and will be updated accordingly. \;

Interested in sponsoring breakfast? Email Austin Seamster (austin@abcga.org) \;

Breakfast will be provided at the meeting! \;


Location: \;

Associated Builders &\; Contractors of Georgia \;

8975 Roswell Rd \;

Atlanta\, GA 30350 \;


Consent for Use of Photographic Images \;

Registration and attendance at\, or participation in\, ABC of Georgia meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ABC of Georgia'\;s use and distribution (now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee&rsquo\;s image or voice in photographs\, videotapes\, electronic reproductions and audiotapes of such events and activities.

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