Call to recognise mental health injuries alongside physical injuries in the workplace

Leila Steed Editor, Demolition & Recycling International

01 October 2024

A campaign is underway to push for mental health injuries caused by work-related incidents to be treated with the same seriousness as physical injuries, an initiative that could transform high-stress industries such as construction, demolition and decommissioning, where the physcial workplace hazards are also a daily reality.

Tina Catling, a corporate psychologist and Principal Practitioner for the Association for British Psychology, is advocating for mental health injuries to be included under the United Kingdom’s Reporting of Injuries, Diseases, and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR).

This would require companies to report incidents of mental health harm in the…

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