CEMEX USA 2021 Safety Week focuses on Safety Skills News provided by Share this article Share this article HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CEMEX USA is beginning the new year, renewing its commitment to Zero4Life by holding Safety Week 2021, its annual company-wide initiative designed to get employees laser-focused on the company's first core value, Health & Safety. This year, employees were empowered to show-off their Safety Skills utilizing an Action Based Safety approach developed to improve hazard identification, hazard control, risk identification and assessment. Safety Week 2021 began at all CEMEX USA plants and facilities on Monday, Jan. 4, with safety activities and messages delivered by local leadership to all employees to refocus them on safety as we begin the new year. Employees spent additional time in the socially-distanced or virtual meetings to address the COVID-19 pandemic, reviewing CEMEX's Behaviors that Save Lives, protocols focused on identifying and reporting symptoms, safeguarding the health of employees and others, personal hygiene and physical distancing to help stop the spread of the virus. Throughout the week, employees also participated in exercises that emphasized hazard identifications, impacts and controls to improve risk identification and assessments.