CITB pledges £500,000 to train mental health first aiders

By Jordan Marshall2018-05-29T12:11:00

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Initiative includes contractors Laing O’Rourke, Morgan Sindall and Multiplex

The Construction Industry Training Board has committed £500,000 to train mental health first aid instructors to improve the wellbeing of UK construction workers.

The funding has been awarded to Building Mental Health – an industry initiative including Lendlease, Mace, Multiplex, Morgan Sindall and Laing O’Rourke – via the CITB’s Flexible Fund.

The project’s objective is to have 156 construction Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructors fully-trained and operating by September 2019, with a minimum of 2,500 on-site mental health first aiders to be trained by 2020.

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