The government's being urged to include clauses in all its construction contracts to make sure workers have mental health support.
The building industry has some of the worst suicide rates of any industry. Mates in Construction is an anti suicide service.
Auckland woman Lisa's family used it during the lockdown because her husband's firm had signed up for it.
She told reporter Lydia Lewis he was already under pressure as a project manager at a hospital site, and then their teenage son started to have suicidal thoughts.
