Affordable House Company Wear Workwear to Support Mental Wellbeing

Australia’s construction industry, the sector which employs more than one million Australians accounting for 9 percent of our nation’s workforce, is alert to the confronting issues relating to men’s health and wellbeing.

Every year almost 200 Australians working in the construction industry (one worker every second day) takes their own life. Men in the construction industry, the sector with the highest rate of male suicide in Australia, are 53 percent more likely to die by suicide than other employed males in our country.

There are many factors that contribute to this distressing outcome, including high work pressure, often long hours, as well as job instability due to cyclical fluctuations in the construction industry.

Affordable House Company, a well-established Queensland-based home builder, is supportive of Government stimulus programs which have positive flow-on effects with construction jobs’ creation and retention. The company is confident the HomeBuilder construction extension will continue to be positive for the construction workforce, creating and retaining jobs, throughout 2022 and beyond.

Some of Affordable House Company’s team occasionally wear workwear designed to cultivate mental health conversations in the workplace (as featured in the video). To improve mental health and wellbeing in Australia’s construction industry, workmates need to have open conversations and encourage each other to seek professional help, especially if they are struggling mentally. That is workmates supporting workmates.

To seek professional help, contact:

TIACS Foundation 0488 846 988
Mates in Construction 1300 642 111
Lifeline 13 11 14
Beyond Blue 1300 22 46 36
Headspace 1800 650 890

References:
https://mates.org.au/the-problem
https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/suicide-construction-sector-australia
https://trademutt.com/workwear