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

By Patrick Hogan, handle.com Subcontractors are used to tracking what’s happening on the ground. Crew schedules, material deliveries, equipment on site, and daily progress. Those are the moving parts everyone sees. But some of the biggest risks to your payment and protection come from what doesn’t show up in plain sight. Gaps in documentation, missing
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By NCCER Staff In the high-risk environment of construction, safety isn’t just a matter of policy—it’s a matter of leadership. Construction superintendents and foremen are critical to maintaining safety on the job site. Their decisions, communication style and ability to model and enforce safety practices have a direct impact on the health and welfare of
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By Nick Williams, CEO, ASA Colorado The construction industry is facing a critical health crisis—one that doesn’t involve falling objects or faulty scaffolding but an invisible threat claiming more lives than all jobsite accidents combined: addiction and overdose. In 2023, an estimated 107,543 people in the United States died from drug overdoses, with over 74,000
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Bu Mary Klett, ASA Communications Team 2025 marks five years since the American Subcontractor’s Association (ASA) and the National Glass Association (NGA) joined proverbial hands and united efforts to raise the tide for all subcontractors. It’s with great admiration and yet a little sorrow that we congratulate Nicole Harris for her leadership as President &
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By Grace Uwizeye-Allen, Graceful Etiquette On a jobsite, safety rules are non-negotiable. But how those rules are communicated, reinforced, and respected often depends on one thing: leadership. And not just technical leadership or authority on paper. The kind of leadership that keeps people alert, engaged, and responsible begins with presence. Supervisors and managers don’t just
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By NCCER Staff It’s a story all subcontractors and specialty trades contractors are all-too-familiar with: A project is on time, sticking to the cost projections and otherwise running smoothly when all of a sudden—a change order comes in. Change orders can be unpleasant to deal with, requiring project stakeholders to quickly pivot from established plans
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