Mental Health in Construction: The Ugly Truth
Did you know that working in construction you are six times more likely to die from suicide than from a fall from a height?
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This holiday season, take the time to check your own well-being. Now is the time to be as passionate about your mental health as you are about your work.
That is a statistic that “The Construction Industry Helpline”, an organization to help those in the construction industry on a variety of topics, CEO Bill Hill has discovered. A quick search of “mental health in construction” and can you see countless construction related articles showing the
heartbreaking statistics of workers who have either taken their lives or considered it. Construction has one of the highest risks of suicide amongst its employees but they aren’t taking the statistics lying down, they are starting to fight back. The “why?” Why is construction, already a sometimes-dangerous job, such a target for depression & suicide? Construction jobs are still addressing predominantly
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