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Construction workers often fight mental health problems, but keys to improving the well -being of industry work force can be simple and achievable.
Construction workers die by suicide at Higher rate than national averagepercent of the centers of control and prevention of diseases. But understand the roots of these challenges, as well as what can mitigate mental health struggles.
A recent webinar Housed by Silver Spring, CPWR, based in Maryland, the construction and construction training center sought to share information about these factors.
Jonathan Davis, Deputy Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa, studied violent death data from the United States from 2013 to 2020.He found that of the almost 130,000 people who died from suicide during that time, 15% of them worked on construction.
“Where we found the biggest difference for construction workers was the use of alcohol and substances,” Davis said during the March 25 webinar. “This allows us to deduce that any intervention in the use of alcohol and substances will reduce this suicide rate.”
But his investigation did not stop here. He also studied laws between states to try to better understand what benefits are correlated with improved mental health.
For example, states that paid a family medical permit had a reduction of 60% of female suicides and a drop of 21% of male suicides compared to those states that did not have these laws. Davis said that the paid holiday time was also correlated with a 7% reduction in men’s suicide and 32% in women.
These results provide “some suggestive tests that remunerated permit would be something that would help reduce suicide rate, especially if implemented at an employer-employee level,” he said.
Allison Weingarten, Washington Senior Analyst, a DC -based professional service signature, MDB, who presented a case study on a New York’s assistance program, shared similar data during the webinar.
In a apprenticeship survey at the International Union of Local Scenic Builders 1, 43% said that the low for paid disease was the largest condition that would change.
Programs that help
The local IUEC 1 founded its employee help program when five learners died from drug overdose over a period of 11 months, said Weingarten.
Union leaders provide drugs and alcohol use education, referrals for group treatment and support and support meetings for members and families, by Weingarten. Prior to 2016, 10% of members who applied for drug or alcohol treatment maintained recovery, but after the program was established, this number jumped to 78%.
In addition to this program, CPWR emphasized the confidence program of the Health Institute of Health of the Drug Dissemination sheet. With headquarters of Falls Church, Virgínia, Smohit is jointly sponsored by the International Association of Workers of Evenings, Air, Railway and Transport and the National Association of Condition Contractors, originally designed to address the impact of asbestos exposure.
Today, Smohit’s mission focuses on total health.
This means visiting the chapters of the Smacna Union and pay the workers’ salaries for two days to stop their job and receive training on drug and first aid awareness, said Edmund Robison, a representative of Smohit Field.
As part of formation and dissemination, unions receive training on the use of Naloxona and Smohit leaves the reversal drug of opioid overdose in each chapter.
Robison said that the training is well received and not only by the unions. Entrepreneurs have sought more and more involved in education and dissemination.
“We really haven’t touched any obstacle with our businessmen once they realize the good and healthy thing that is and how it really is to help our people at work,” said Robison. “They want us to come and educate their associations of contractors.”
