Wellness & Well-being Highlights June 9th

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of June 9, 2025

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how construction overdose deaths remain high and yet DC plans to cut services to help reduce those numbers—to how dating apps are negatively impacting your MH—to the ‘selective’ repeal of our newest holiday: Juneteenth. This week I would like to share with you some thoughts on my recent visit to Scotland and England.

Some of you may know that last fall I undertook a research project focusing on suicide postvention in the construction industry. During the survey phase I came across a researcher from England (Dr John Whitebrook) and practitioner from Scotland (Dr John Gibson) who have done extensive work in the postvention arena. As luck would have it, I was able to participate in a suicide researchers’ conference—in Glasgow on Jun 2-3—attending my English contact’s presentation and poster session. This was followed by a 2-day training on postvention in the workplace—in Dunblane on Jun 4-5—delivered by my contact’s charity (The Canmore Trust) in Scotland. On Jun 6, I then moved on to Canterbury, Kent, England to present my findings, to date, regarding my aforementioned research at the Canterbury Cathedral. Many thanks to the progressive leaders at Warnborough College.

As I reflect on this past week, my conversation with the Day 2 keynote speaker, in Glasgow, gave me great hope that our industry is heading in the right direction. Dr Rosie Allister first started her career as a veterinarian. However, after years in the industry performing surgery, she identified a need that required attention: Suicides of fellow vets. She went back to earn a PhD on this issue and now oversees VetLife, a vet helpline that has experienced a ten-fold increase in call volume over the past decade. In addition, she trains, lectures, and advises on a variety of related topics. One being a postvention guide for vets.[1] This can serve as a model guide for workplace suicide postvention for other industries…including construction!

Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/

Source: [1] https://www.vetlife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Suicide-postvention-guidance_16May22.pdf

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