Mental health

More than half of respondents to CN’s industry survey have experienced mental health issues. A quarter have considered suicide.The construction industry has reached a tipping point. So how is your business going to inspire change?

“It starts off small. You start feeling a bit sorry for yourself – and that seems…

A total of 1,139 people from across the construction industry took the Mind Matters survey. Here are the startling results.

55 per cent of respondents have experienced mental health issues, rising to 64 per cent among junior and graduate employees 42 per cent had experienced issues at their current place of…

Back in the early 90s, I had my own business. We were carrying out a programme of hotel refurbishments across Europe.

There was one particular job I was on in Paris: we were one of the subcontractors. The main contractor got into a disagreement with the hotel owners, which meant the…

Brains are amazing things.

Some of the greatest ones have been responsible for making sense of the fundamental physics of our universe; for composing music that will be played throughout history; for attempting to answer some of humanity’s most pressing questions. Some have been responsible for creating the most iconic buildings…

The industry’s first health, safety and wellbeing stand-down has highlighted some of construction’s most emotive issues – and how contractors and clients can improve how construction works.

On every construction site across the country, each day brings its own deadlines. These might be anything from managing the delivery and storage of…

How many times have you said, ‘I’m stressed out,’ but then dismissed the way you were feeling, thinking it would pass with time?

Have you ever tried to shrug off feeling low, anxious or overwhelmed and not been able to? Perhaps you’ve just got on with it, hoping things would get…

Someone who is battling with mental health issues as well as the burden of covering them up cannot give their full attention to anything else.

Not to staying safe, solving problems or managing relationships. It’s the equivalent of trying to drive a car uphill, in sixth gear, with the handbrake on.…

There were more suicides in construction than in any other profession in the five years to the end of 2015, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics.

The figures, which cover people in England aged between 20 and 64, showed there were 1,419 suicides by those working in…

Right now, one in six workers in the UK are dealing with a mental health problem such as anxiety, depression or stress.

In construction, 20 per cent of self-reported illnesses in 2014-15 were related to mental health, and industry workers are 10 times more likely to die by suicide than onsite…

The launch of CN’s Mind Matters campaign has prompted a huge response from across the industry. Here we take a look at what you’ve been sharing.

“Generally being stressed out in construction is considered to be the norm. There is a perception that if you are not stressed you are not…