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The Toolbox Talk Isn't Enough
There's a toolbox talk for almost everything on a construction site, but wellbeing isn't a ten-minute subject. Here's why workforce wellbeing needs a human layer, not just another briefing.
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You Can't Fix What You Can't See
Construction tracks every visible risk on site, but the biggest one is still harder to see. Around 500 people working in construction occupations die by suicide every year in England and Wales - nearly four times the rate of other sectors (ONS data, analysed by Glasgow Caledonian University). Here's why SPEAK is building a way to see the pressure building, before it reaches crisis.
The Toolbox Talk Isn't Enough
There's a toolbox talk for almost everything on a construction site, but wellbeing isn't a ten-minute subject.
Men Don't Talk
Men do talk, in vans, on scaffolds, over a brew. The problem is nobody asks the right question until it's already a crisis.
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