Resilience by Design: Leadership Strategies for Mental Health Protection in Construction Teams
- HEALTH, Leadership, Outlook & Trends
- October 2, 2025
- Smarter Jobsites, Same Old Gap
- Fifth Circuit Rules OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements Do Not Apply to Workplace Mental Illness and Affirms Viability of Loper Bright Defense
- Mental Health Is a Leadership Imperative in Construction
- Collaboration That Saves Lives: Inside the ASAC Health & Safety Summit
- Building Resilience: Why Mental Health Belongs in Every Contractor's Safety Culture
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Spotlight on Substance Use Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery in Construction0
- HEALTH, Improving Productivity, Outlook & Trends, Safety
- September 1, 2026
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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Insured, and Still Broke0
By Chris Cordon Most people believe health insurance is the thing that protects them from financial ruin. Then they read the fine print the hard way. The most-cited study of medical bankruptcy in this country found that nearly 8 in 10 of the people it wiped out had health insurance when they got sick. (American
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The Most Valuable Thing You Own Isn’t Insured0
Add up everything you’ve insured. The house. The car. The phone in your pocket has a $15-a-month protection plan on it. You’ve covered the things that can break, burn, or get stolen. Now look at the one asset that pays for all of it. A 35-year-old earning $70,000 will bring in well north of $2
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The Only Insurance Plan Guaranteed to Pay Off0
- HEALTH
- June 30, 2026
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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The Crisis Your Benefits Plan was Designed to Miss0
- CONSTRUCTION, HEALTH, Safety
- June 2, 2026
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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Your Crew is Your Leading Indicator0
- HEALTH, Improving Productivity, Safety, WORKFORCE
- June 2, 2026
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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What’s the New PFAS Ruling Got to Do with Me?
- ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, OSHA, Safety
- June 25, 2024
Ask a Safety Expert - Fall safety
- HEALTH, HR, Risk Management, Safety
- May 26, 2025
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