We need to be much more proactive in tackling mental health

By Kevin O'Connor 2019-04-04T06:00:00

Mental health isn’t something we can solve with half-measures and isolated approaches

We live in a society in which the stresses of work, on top of those in our personal lives, are covered more and more widely, yet our industry is worse than most others. To give one example, according to Office for National Statistics figures, in 2017 suicide rates among construction workers were more than triple the national average.

We are not blind to this, and I truly believe we have taken great steps in recent years to react to it. However, just because we’re now taking action doesn’t necessarily mean we’re taking the right action.

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