You've trained for years mastering your craft — including how to work safely for yourself and everyone on your jobsite. That same commitment extends to mental health.

Construction workers have the second-highest rate of suicide and the highest rate of overdose deaths of any U.S. industry. Hard Hat Courage is the construction industry's collective commitment to change that — making it as important to talk about mental health as physical health.

Every life matters. Every conversation counts. Bring Hard Hat Courage tools to your jobsite or office to support your mental health and your peers.

Use the tools below as practical resources you can put into action on the job. Review them yourself, bring them into crew conversations, or share them with your foreman, superintendent, safety lead, or project leadership so they can support wider use across the project.

Each tool helps you recognize warning signs, check in early, and connect people to support when needed.

• Toolbox Talks: Short, practical conversations that help crews talk about suicide prevention and mental health in a job-site-ready way. Review them on your own, use them to start a crew discussion, or share them with project leaders to help build awareness and encourage teams to look out for one another.

  All Toolbox Talks are available in English and Spanish.

• Talk Saves Lives: Construction: A flexible presentation designed for the construction industry to help crews understand suicide prevention and mental health. Sessions can be adapted from 20 to 60 minutes to fit into a safety meeting, lunch-and-learn, or crew training. Talk Saves Lives: Construction offers flexible, on-site delivery and can be presented effectively at jobsites with or without slides.

  Ask your foreman, superintendent, safety lead, or project leadership about bringing the program to your jobsite or sharing it with team members who can lead it internally.

• 988 Stickers: Download the sticker design file and order stickers for yourself and your co-workers.

If you have lost someone to suicide, you don't have to go through it alone. Hard Hat Courage offers resources for grief support and healing. Support is available, and reaching out for it takes the same kind of strength you bring to your work every day.

• Healing Conversations: Personal Support for Survivors of Suicide Loss: Healing Conversations is a one-time visit (phone, virtual, in person) that connects those who have lost someone to suicide with trained volunteers who are also survivors of suicide loss. The goal of this connection is to help survivors of suicide loss navigate this challenging journey by offering support, understanding, connection, and resources.

• Surviving a Suicide Loss: Resource and Healing Guide: Our Resource and Healing Guide that provides information about coping with loss, the survivor loss community, and resources to help with your journey. (English) (Spanish)

• Find a Support Group: For many people, attending a support group with other suicide loss survivors can be a helpful part of their healing journey. While AFSP does not run, recommend, endorse, or fund any of the groups listed, we do offer a comprehensive list of support groups.