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

By Chris Cordon, Affinity Benefits Every insurance policy you own is a bet you’re hoping to lose. You pay for car insurance and pray you never crash. You pay homeowner’s and hope the house never burns. Health, disability, the warranty on the dishwasher. Same deal every time. You hand over money each month for the
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Last year, more construction workers died by suicide than from falls, electrocutions, struck-by accidents, and caught-in injuries combined. Roughly five thousand suicide deaths against about a thousand from OSHA’s entire “Fatal Four.” We run safety stand-downs against the smaller number. We say almost nothing about the bigger one. I’m not going to pretend to be
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By Adam Roderick, Datateer; and Nick Williams, R.I.S.E. Inc. We were sitting together in ASAC’s Trade Partner Connection, experienced leaders from across the construction industry trying to tackle some of the challenges we all feel every day. The topic of the day was employee well-being. Inevitably the familiar old mentality creeped in: “This sounds good
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The Most Expensive Phrase in Health Care: “Go Down the Hall” You get an MRI ordered. The doctor’s office is inside a hospital system. Someone at the front desk says five words that will cost you thousands: “You can just go down the hall.” So, you walk down the hall. Get the MRI. The bill:
READ MOREIn a recent Affinity Benefits podcast, Richard Bright, CEO of ASA, sat down with Chris Cordon, Benefits Advisor at Affinity Benefits, to unpack one of the most pressing challenges facing small and mid-sized businesses today: the rising cost and growing complexity of healthcare coverage. What followed was a candid, practical conversation about why the system
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This is a new regular feature of ASA. We hope you like it. You probably didn’t notice when it happened. December 31st came and went, and somewhere between the champagne and the bowl games, one of the largest health insurance subsidies in American history quietly expired. If you buy health insurance through the marketplace —
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