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Seddon mental health push after worker suicide

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  1. Sad as it is why does the construction industry need to play a big role in this, is that not the job of the NHS and the families. Next we will be having safe rooms on building sites and cuddling each other on a daily basis. A building site is a dangerous place to be when you don’t have mental health let alone when you have suicidal tendencies,

  2. Wow, Ronnie Bailey- ‘man up’, snap out of it, get a grip – all part of a macho ‘male’ culture that has perhaps contributed to a young man’s death at 25.

    I recall way back in the 1980s (long before Jordan Bibby was born) the sports entrepreneur-cum- management ‘guru’ Mark MacCormack identified three ‘hard-to-say’ things: I don’t know; I was wrong; and I need help. Some things and people, including the construction industry it seems, are slow to change.

    Even sports teams have huddles and rather ‘touchy-feely’ celebrations!

    Perhaps together with safe rooms we might have clean toilets and altogether more welcoming environments; hoping Ronnie might have a heart …

    Brian Wood

  3. What is even sadder is the response from Ronnie Bailey…such a typical heartless and “big tough man” response. I say well done to this company for their very proactive initiative. May more companies follow their lead. Not every construction worker has an immediate family living in the same town or even the same country to be able to turn to in time of need. A sensitivity to these issues has to be developed across the industry… Ronnie’s response is an indication of just how urgently that is required. Marjorie

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