‘THERE’S something going on in construction, and we don’t know where we are in Scotland. To me, that’s just ignoring it.”
For the past few years construction management professor Billy Hare has been analysing how many workers in the industry have taken their own lives in England and Wales and the trend is deeply worrying.
According to data the Glasgow Caledonian University academic has compiled from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the rate of deaths by suicide across the two nations has rocketed from 26 to 34 per 100,000 in the seven years to 2021.
