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ABC – Building workers ditch ‘harden-up’ culture

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ABC – Building workers ditch ‘harden-up’ culture
By Lars Gullestrup
Posted September 8, 2016
In Queensland
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Building workers ditch 'harden-up' culture to deconstruct suicide by talking to mates

The building industry is six times more likely to lose a worker to suicide than a workplace accident.

Organisers of the Mates in Construction program said they had helped reduce the industry’s suicide rate over the past nine years.

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