All Mental health articles
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CommentGet that September spring in your step
This has always been the month for getting back to normal, our batteries recharged – but it’ll require extra measures this year to get everyone’s bounce back, warns James Wates
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Happiness by design
Architects know how to boost wellbeing through good design – but the onus is on developers to encourage that, says Félicie Krikler
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Industry warned of covid mental health crisis
CITB research finds more than one quarter of workers have experienced suicidal thoughts in past year
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McAlpine lands £73m hospital upgrade job
Firm to build one new mental health centre and upgrade two more
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Practical ways to help staff’s mental health
A little thought can have a big impact when people are feeling the strain, says ODS’ Martin Shields
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Building on mental health in the built environment
On National Suicide Prevention Day, Redrow’s Karen Jones urges construction to change the mental health conversation on the ground
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Infrastructure bigwigs look to tackle causes of illness and injury
Areas to be addressed include mental health and public safety
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We need to be much more proactive in tackling mental health
Mental health isn’t something we can solve with half-measures and isolated approaches
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It’s OK not to be OK. But how do we make people OK?
With men making up the vast majority of the construction industry, a fair conclusion is that it is male behaviours around mental health that most need to be tackled: by training people in non-judgmental listening and saying it is “OK not to be OK”.
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CITB pledges £500,000 to train mental health first aiders
Initiative includes contractors Laing O’Rourke, Morgan Sindall and Multiplex
