300,000 people with long-term mental health problems lose their jobs each year, while poor mental health costs employers up to £42bn a year.
In the construction industry alone, one in four workers consider taking their own lives, with male workers being 35% more likely to do so, in comparison with other professions.
The 2017 ICE-Costain Lecture on Health and Safety will focus on mental health in the industry and what organisations can proactively do to address the issue.
Lecture programme:
18:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
Professor Lord Robert Mair, President 2017 – 2018, ICE
18:35 Welcome note
Darren James, Infrastructure Managing Director, Costain
18:40 Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, MIND
- Mental Health problems and how they are being tackled
- Looking at the bigger picture; wider lessons learnt across the spectrum
19:00 Paul Litchfield, Chief Medical Officer, BT
- The BT story
- Lessons learnt which can be transferred to the construction industry
19:20 Interactive discussion with the speakers and the audience
19:55 Closing remarks
Professor Lord Robert Mair, President 2017 – 2018, ICE
20:00 Close of Lecture and drinks reception