30 Apr 2024

Initiative to start mental health conversations in construction

From Afternoons, 1:14 pm on 30 April 2024
Diamond Workwear is a social impact workwear brand aimed at starting conversations about mental health.

Diamond Workwear is a social impact workwear brand aimed at starting conversations about mental health. Photo: Diamond Workwear

Between 2007 - 2019, 583 tradespeople working in the construction industry died by suicide, and 98 percent of them were men. 

Canterbury-based Construction Site Manager Alan Farragher has seen some of this struggle firsthand.

He's in the process of launching Diamond Workwear - a social impact workwear brand aimed at starting conversations about mental health.

Two builders in yellow and orange at the construction site

Photo: 123RF