MENTAL HEALTH
Construction Fatalities:
A Hidden Danger
Construction sites can be high-risk working environments; potentially hazardous conditions
are often everyday job components. According to Canadian insurance firm Aviva,
the top causes of construction injuries and fatalities in the country are slips, trips and
falls; falls from heights; struck by moving vehicles or falling objects; and electrocution.
However, a hidden danger has been taking the lives of construction workers across the country at
even greater rates than the top causes identified in Canada.
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Suicide is killing construction workers.
What can we do?
By Jill Harris, Lester Communications Inc.
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