charity Mindflow<\/a>, he this month launched a more formal approach to a charter introduced last October as a counter-attack against high suicide rates and psychological unease in the sector.<\/p>\nThe first seven companies had registered and self-assessed against the 10 core principles in the document by 12 October 2026.<\/p>\n
Balfour Beatty and Graham led the way with three-star ratings while Sisk and VolkerStevin Infrastructure were among those with two stars.<\/p>\n
More than 50 companies came forward a year ago to back the newly launched charter but Steven is now calling on as many firms as possible to register and assess.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all right talking about it and saying things, but the likelihood is things will not be seen through,\u201d he told CN.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided to make a registration platform with the charter in the same format as last time, with the 10 principles \u2013 the same as in a football team, bar the goalkeeper.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mindflow website shows the principles lined up in a progressive 4-3-3 formation more common in the current Premier League era than in Steven\u2019s 1980s heyday. Measurable Performance leads the line in the Number 9 jersey while Fairness and Awareness form a partnership in the centre of the field.<\/p>\n
The idea is that by following the step-by-step guide to improving in each area, the contractor can build a winning team that does all it can to minimise bad mental health on and off sites.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an opportunity for the industry, particularly in the times that we live in and what needs to be done to look after the modern workforces,\u201d said Steven.<\/p>\n
He hopes to see an increasing level of registration and eventually this adherence to the charter to be mandated by clients and main contractors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m asking the tier ones to disseminate this down their supply chains and encourage their subcontractors to get on board,\u201d said Steven.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other thing I do is speak to councils and mayors, and [ask] that they recommend in procurement that anyone tendering is on a mental health journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually it will become obligatory to evidence that. But that\u2019s in the future; the industry is not mature enough around mental health to be scored on this.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like it to become the common standard for mental health in construction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Steven was inspired into his current challenge when he got a call from the founder of construction software giant Causeway Technologies, Phil Brown, who helped fund a film about his title-winning side called Everton: Howard\u2019s Way.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put our heads together and said let\u2019s join the dots between football, construction and mental health,\u201d Steven said.<\/p>\n
Mindflow offers short onsite sessions called match-ups, which are led by former professional footballers with lived experience of pressure, silence and resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England footballer Trevor Steven has told Construction News about his desire to effect a culture change in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-629361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}