A recent survey has highlighted that Western Australian construction workers, especially those who fly-in-fly-out and drive-in-drive-out, experience suicidal thoughts and behaviors at three times the national average. The issue is exacerbated by the isolation and the abrupt shifts between work and home life.
A survey has found WA construction workers experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours at three times the national average, with fly-in fly-out and drive-in drive-out workers particularly at risk.
Mrs McCormack said many FIFO workers who had sacrificed time with family in order to financially support them were now finding the money was not stretching as far."The resource industry is turbulent … so there's a constant turnover of people losing their jobs and there's a lot of stress in that," Mrs McCormack said.
The data was sourced from surveys of more than 1,743 construction workers in WA representing civil, resource, commercial and residential construction industries in a variety of regional and metropolitan locations. "Companies need to look at all these kinds of things and take it seriously because together it has a big impact."
He said establishing buddy systems for apprentices, who were particularly at-risk of suicidal ideation, was one strategy organisations could explore.
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