ABC members care about their employees. Not only do they want to send them home safe at the end of the shift, they also want them to live a healthy lifestyle and enjoy the abundance life has to offer through their careers and beyond.

The Total Human Health Initiative encompasses multiple dimensions of health organized within four, simple and easy to remember categories: Body, Heart, Mind, and Soul.

Total human health is focused on building a resilient workforce connected though relationships and engaged in performing construction work to a high standard of safety, quality and effectiveness.

Our workforce is our most important resource, highly skilled and ready to build the places where America lives, learns, works, heals, plays and prays. We cannot achieve anything without our workforce.

The driving imperative behind total human health in our labor-intensive industry is twofold:

Address the changing demographics of the workforce and the workforce shortage in the skilled trades.

Work to reduce the high suicide rate among construction workers.

Our success is directly dependent on the talent we attract and retain.

Total human health raises the bar of keeping workers safe. It goes beyond observable safety behavior. We must acknowledge the preoccupying concerns that everyone experiences in daily life, incorporating:

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ABC Promotes Mental Well-Being

Since 2022, ABC has delivered suicide prevention and awareness education at 47 chapters, training more than 3,000 industry professionals, and hosted free weekly webinars during Suicide Prevention Month in September. The training program helps construction workers understand how to prevent suicide by creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges—and developing help-seeking and help-giving skills. ABC counts 78 Mental Health Champions nationwide.

ABC is a founding member of the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

For more information on suicide prevention and awareness education, contact Haley Moyers at [email protected].

CIASP
recovery friendly workplace certification
ABC Total Wellness Partners

ABC's total wellness partners offer members three programs that further the goals of total human health.

Corporate Chaplains of America/LEAPCare

Employees of ABC members receive 24/7/365 care for permission-based help in daily life matters and times of crisis

Blue-U

Blue-U offers everything you need to help secure your employees and company from dangerous threats at work.

Tuned

Tuned is the only comprehensive, virtual hearing benefit available for employees.

ABC Health and Safety Leadership Forum


Empowering Executives to Foster Transformational Cultures

The ABC Health and Safety Leadership Forum is the premier event for visionary C-suite leaders dedicated to transforming their organization's health and safety culture. This exclusive forum is a deep dive into ABC's STEP Health and Safety Management System, insights into its key components and the direct correlation of leadership commitment and industry-leading health and safety cultures.

Designed for forward-thinking executives, this forum will elevate your leadership, enhance your workplace environment and lead the charge in creating a sustainable, thriving and resilient organization. Join us to explore innovative strategies and proven systems, share best practices in a confidential environment and drive your organization toward a culture of excellence that showcases the core values of safety and total human health.

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