The Strong Minds, Safe Sites program is focused on mental health support, trauma services and psychological safety training for construction workers.

This week, conversations about mental health will take place across New York City’s construction industry, bringing needed attention to an often-overlooked crisis. The industry, both the members of ...

Erich Mische is CEO of SAVE - Suicide Awareness Voices of Education. Jonathan Oppenheim is Head of North America Construction Industry Vertical Division at Willis. Jen Owens is Director of Programs at ...

The Union Construction Academy is one of a growing suite of construction workforce development programs looking to address workforce shortages. PHOTO / COURTESY OF MAINE AFL-CIO Kloey Arsenault was 18 ...

With the Tennessee Titans’ stadium a year from opening, one program has injected more than 100 new construction workers into the building workforce.

Industry leaders created Construction Suicide Prevention Week in 2019 in reaction to a steady rise in the death-by-suicide rate among construction workers. “We all agreed, as an industry collectively, ...

Who does that guy work for? Highly skilled tradespeople don’t often work under an temporary-employee agency’s umbrella, but moderate to low-skilled laborers can be brought in for tasks that don’t ...

Finding enough talented construction workers to replace an aging workforce has been an issue in Northern Nevada for more than a decade. The regional boom in industrial employment over the last 10 ...

To the next generation of women: if you like working with your hands, solving problems, and seeing tangible results, there is a place for you in construction. This industry can provide strong wages, ...

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