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We work in a really challenging industry.
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While I was working 75 hours a week, every week for,
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you know, three or four years straight,
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you're working from dawn till dusk.
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And we work away from my family got to the point where I
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had made the plan and got the means to end my life,
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I was quite happy for my wife to find me dead.
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I just couldn't figure out how to do that without my kids
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finding me, which is ultimately when I asked for help.
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- In construction, the rates of depression, anxiety,
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and burnout are 37% higher than the Australian norm.
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We were able to secure funding from WorkSafe Victoria's Work
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Well Mental Health Improvement Fund,
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which is a tremendous initiative to work on looking at
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systemic change in industry in order to prevent mental
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illness or injury.
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- Traditionally the industry approach has been,
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we've got a job to do. It's high pressure, high intensity.
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You have a program and you have a deadline
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and you have to meet it.
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- The integrated approach to wellness program,
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roughly a nine month program.
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And it's made up of a number of quite substantial workshops
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underpinning all of that is one-on-one coaching quarter,
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all of that though is the conscious strategy pace,
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which lays out on a single page, the vision, the purpose,
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the behaviors, and the objectives
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that any project or business has as its foundation.
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So we were able to identify a pilot group,
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which is the Mordialloc freeway joint venture between
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McConnell Dell.
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While we're focusing on 18 of the project management
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leaders, the cascade is down through all
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white collar professionals on the project.
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- Having the senior leaders become more aware of their own
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behavior, as well as behaviors of the team
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and how to use things such
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as emotional intelligence and different leadership
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strategies to improve overall wellness and culture across
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either your respective company or your project.
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It's latest, we all have an obligation
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and a duty of care to look after our people
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and ensure that we prevent people getting to a
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position where they are so stressed,
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that they are needing to make a choice about whether or not
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they go home to their family at night.
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When we have a workforce with positive mental health,
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what we actually get is a direct correlation with
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performance, performance equals productivity,
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productivity equals commercial results.
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So there is now real evidence to say that investing in
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wellbeing and mental health has
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a direct result on your bottom line.
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We've seen a remarkable reduction in levels of burnout,
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about 41% reduction.
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We've also seen reductions in levels of perceived stress at
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17% reduction in reductions, in levels of depression,
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about 38% further to date,
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we've seen improvements in work-life balance.
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So your ability to balance your work commitments with your
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family life and that's improved by about 40% as well.
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So another really drastic improvement.
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If we continue on with the current systems,
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we're going to continue to see people's lives impacted in a
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negative way, which that alone should
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be reason to not let that happen.