In today's rapidly evolving work environments, ensuring the safety and well-being of employees is paramount. However, one aspect that often gets overlooked is the need for inclusive and simplified workplace safety training that caters to diverse learners. By recognising and accommodating the unique needs of individuals from various backgrounds, organisations can create a safer and more inclusive work environment.
Every year 190 Australians working in the construction industry take their own lives; this means we lose a construction worker every second day to suicide. Construction workers are six times more likely to die from suicide than an accident at work. For our young workers, the facts are that they are well over two times more likely to take their own lives than other young Australian men.