The campaign, called Help Inside the Hard Hat, goes on tour across the Midlands on 7th February for a week, to raise awareness of the charitable services available to the construction industry, allied trades and their families.
The tour aims to deliver the message directly to frontline workers that “no construction worker or their family should be alone in a crisis”.
The charity is asking companies and sites in the Midlands to make contact if they would like a visit from the ‘Hard Hat’ tour team to deliver the charity’s message in their workplace.
Bill Hill, chief executive of Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity (formerly the Lighthouse Club), said: “There is a marked increase in suicides within the trades, machine operators and our unskilled labour force. Over 50% of this workforce are either self-employed, agency workers or on zero hour contracts and are often part of the subcontracted labour force on our construction sites. This suggests that communication about the support services we have available are simply not getting through to these workers and they are the ones that need us the most.”
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