Poor mental health in the construction industry accounts for over 200 suicides per year

  • Human Resources
  • 40 languages
  • 40m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the different factors that can trigger mental illnesses in those working in the construction industry
  • Understand how a 'macho' culture has impacted the construction sector
  • Learn how to take positive steps to remove stigma surrounding mental health

Covered in this course

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 4 sections

  1. 1
    Mental Health in Construction
  2. 2
    Mental Health Problems
  3. 3
    Wellbeing toolkit
  4. 4
    External Help

About this course

You may be wondering why we’ve created a Mental Health course specifically for the construction industry. Well, put simply, poor mental health in the construction industry accounts for over 200 suicides per year and this is simply not good enough.

The sad and often unspoken truth of it is that construction workers are prone to stress, anxiety and depression for a number of different reasons and these factors are responsible for over 400,000 lost working days each year in the UK.

As a predominantly male industry, there is a ‘macho culture’ attached to construction sites and workplaces, and this often puts pressure on workers to ‘suck it up’ and get on with things, even if they are really struggling with a mental health issue.

Our Mental Health in Construction course is split into 4 easy-to-follow and engaging sections which aim to educate learners on the various types of mental health problems, the science behind our thinking and where to go to for external help. The course also puts a strong emphasis on breaking the stigma surrounding mental ill-health throughout.

Check out our free white paper on mental ill-health in UK workplaces and ISO 45003 & wellbeing at work.

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The importance of Mental Health in Construction Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Mental Health Awareness certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Mental Health in Construction Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Mental Health Awareness Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

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Easy to use

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It's OK not great

Too many short videos. Just make them into one video.

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I hated it

It triggered all of my mental health issues just getting through the 30 videos. In the end I skipped the last 16 videos I’m still feeling angry about it now. It’s long winded and unnecessary. HATED it. But still go 80%

Brilliant

Brilliant helps u open your eyes more and help more going through bad times

go bed early get up early and have stress free day and make sure you’re very Alfie person👍

be fit and in good health and you have no problem with life going to work I’m coming home safe

Why is this training important?

Compliance

Poor mental health in the construction industry accounts for over 400,000 lost working days and, sadly, over 200 suicides every year.

It’s an unspoken fact that a combination of strenuous work, a predominantly male workforce, and a “macho culture” mixes in the construction industry to make an atmosphere hostile to the sharing of one’s feelings. Our Mental Health Awareness in Construction course is specifically designed to shine a light on this problem, breaking the stigma, and helping construction workers open up about their mental health; in turn, reducing the number of lost working days and, hopefully, saving lives.

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