Big Builds and Bold Ideas
Grant Fuller’s Converge Expo Major Projects Stage keynote on mental health is featured in Inside Construction, spotlighting Wellness in Infrastructure’s research, programs and industry-wide call for change.
Australian Construction Achievement Award Mordialloc Freeway
Australian Construction Achievement Award Mordialloc Freeway November 18, 2024 / Media The Mordialloc Freeway project was awarded as a design and construct contract with an Early Activities Phase to enable the contractor to support the client respond to the requirements of the EES. The maturity of MRPV as customer and the JV as contractor very […]
Improving Industry Wellbeing
In 2018 a group of senior business leaders who wanted to collectively address the mental health and wellbeing challenges being encountered by professionals in the infrastructure construction industry developed the Wellness in Infrastructure (WII) initiative.
Fresh bullying allegations for CFMEU
The ABC has obtained footage showing the CFMEU’s construction division’s tactics at a Brisbane worksite. It’s the latest in a string of allegations of intimidation facing the union, and coincides with the federal government’s move to pass urgent legislation to force the division into administration.
The Case for Wellness
Roads & Infrastructure Magazine learns more about Wellness In Infrastructure and how the entity is helping to forge an optimistic future around mental health and wellbeing.
The state of mental health in the infrastructure construction industry
Long work hours, high-pressure project targets and fixed-time contracts contribute to the infrastructure industry being deemed at high-risk for mental ill-health. Supporting mental wellbeing is vital to the industry’s continued success, writes Grant Fuller and Professor Luke Downey.
Embracing an integrated approach to wellness in construction
Paving the way for improved mental health and wellbeing in the construction industry, McConnell Dowell has recently adopted The Integrated Approach to Wellness across its operations.
The key to improving workers’ mental health (it’s not free yoga)
Employers must train managers on how to solve mental health issues and give employees more say over how they do their jobs if Australia is to avoid a doubling in the number of workers’ mental health compensation claims by 2030.
Andrews government’s major project pipeline pushes workers to brink
White-collar workers delivering the Andrews government’s huge pipeline of transport projects are being pushed to the brink of breakdown, recording stress and anxiety levels worse than many psychiatric patients, a report has found.
