Resilience by Design: Leadership Strategies for Mental Health Protection in Construction Teams
- HEALTH, Leadership, Outlook & Trends
- October 2, 2025

By Michael Metz-Topodas and Jacob Tosti, Saul Ewing LLP A decades-old Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA”) requirement has come to an end. Certain employers no longer need to record employees’ work-related mental illness on OSHA’s record-keeping forms due to a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in
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George Nash, Maxim Consulting Group In 2023, there were 982 work-related fatalities in the construction industry. During that same period, an estimated 5,095 construction professionals died by suicide. While our industry has made tremendous progress in improving physical safety, these numbers make one thing clear: protecting our people requires more than hard hats, PPE, and
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By Nick Williams, ASA of Colorado Construction is an industry built on coordination. Trades stacking work, schedules aligning, materials arriving on time, and people showing up for each other when the stakes are high. What we do not always coordinate well enough is care. The 2025 ASAC Health & Safety Summit was born out of
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By Cathy Tyler, NCCER Every contractor understands that safety begins long before the first tool comes out. It starts with a culture where everyone takes responsibility for looking out for one another. From daily toolbox talks to job hazard analyses, the industry’s strongest safety programs are built on the belief that every person deserves to
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By Sonya Bohmann, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention Recently, I had the opportunity to present to a trade group in the Midwest. During the discussion, someone asked a question that I have heard in various forms many times before: “Are we creating a problem that does not actually exist by talking so much about
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By Cal Beyer, CWP, NAC Over the past decade, the construction industry has made meaningful progress addressing workplace mental health. A majority of the attention has focused on suicide prevention. In July 2016 the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released data showing the construction industry has a high rate of suicide. Shortly thereafter
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