NEEDS ANALYSIS

This Needs Analysis & Implementation Tool was developed by the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention (CIASP) to aid companies in evaluating how they address mental health and suicide prevention in the construction workplace. It will also help determine how prepared they, and their employees, are to handle a mental health or suicide crisis.

This Tool is best utilized as a team with representatives from all facets of the organization. The key items to remember are:

1) Suicide prevention should not be a separate program—it is most effective when integrated into multiple existing programs and processes within the organization. Think about it being baked in—not bolted on.

2) Suicide prevention should not be one person’s responsibility – leadership should come from multiple sources. This not only ensures broad integration but more complete buy in.

3) Doing something is better than doing nothing. Start with one action step and build on that! The tool is made up of questions for self-evaluation as a leadership team accompanied by some suggestions of action steps you can take to improve your preparedness. Each action item has a place to identify who is responsible—a person or a function within the company, but also who else do they need to get involved for maximum effectiveness. It is organized by the principles of our
STAND pledge and the activities that help your organization to fully adopt the 5 principles: Safe. Training. Awareness. Normalizing. Decrease.

Click here to complete the Needs Analysis.