How construction workers are struggling with poor mental health

Construction workers around the world are far more likely to die by their own hand than to be killed in an accident on site. But what is being done help prevent the thousands of suicides which take place every year in the construction industry and is it enough? Lucy Barnard finds out. 

For construction worker Andy Stevens, the final straw came when his marriage was breaking up and he was thrown out of the family home.

The self-employed builder and father of two from Surrey in the UK attempted to take his own life with a kitchen knife when confronted with a…

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