The UK’s largest roofing trade association, NFRC, is backing a new campaign from Samaritans, Real People Real Stories, which aims to use real life stories to reach men struggling to cope reaching crisis point and [read more…]
National framework organisation Pagabo has entered into a partnership with health technology brand Moodbeam to look after and promote the wellbeing of everyone working on projects in the built environment through the use of wearable [read more…]
With news that more than a fifth of engineers take time off due to mental health, Alan Lusty, the CEO and founder of adi Group, a national multidisciplinary engineering business, argues that this Men’s Health Week his industry should step up its game in addressing [read more…]
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has warned that there could be another surge in mental health problems across the construction and building engineering sectors as more sites and buildings re-open. It said Mental Health [read more…]
In light of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)’s shocking recent announcement that one in four construction workers considered suicide in 2019, even before the Covid-19 pandemic had hit the industry, Simon Blake OBE, Chief [read more…]
Today (Thursday 6th February), on Time to Talk Day, Mates in Mind is raising awareness about mental ill-health at work by supporting managers across the UK in tackling the issue. In 2019 70% of managers reported barriers to [read more…]
Data from the Office of National Statistics published in 2017 revealed the risk of suicide among low-skilled male labourers – particularly those in construction – were three time higher than the national average. Furthermore, a [read more…]
A recent survey conducted by UK Construction Week, with support from Mates in Mind charity, has found that six out of 10 workers in construction have suffered mental ill-health because of their work. Mates in [read more…]
The largest event in the history of the UK construction industry to address mental health issues in the sector opens today (Tuesday 8 October), as part of UK Construction Week. The focus on mental health [read more…]
Hinkley Point nuclear power station, Britain’s biggest construction project since the Second World War, is grappling with a mental illness crisis, with several attempted suicides since work began in 2016, a Guardian investigation has revealed. [read more…]
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