Gamlingay construction company Brogan Group has raised £2,000 in a charity challenge where volunteers walked or ran the distance of heights of buildings.
Managing the mental health of workers and your legal obligations
19 Feb 2021 Sponsored
The construction industry has made great strides with health and safety, especially around worker safety and preventing physical injuries and deaths.
But there are huge improvements that still need to be made in protecting the mental health of workers.
“Remember that an employer’s duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act extends to the health, safety and welfare of employees. That duty clearly encompasses mental health and wellbeing as well as physical health”
Reported instances of anxiety, stress and depression in the industry have been on the increase for several years. The latest available figures from the ONS show there were 2,526 suicides in construction between 2011 and 2019. Of those, 2,510 – or 99.4 per cent – were men.