Way Up, Not Out™
Protecting the Human Inside the Hard Hat
Construction loses 5‑to‑1 more workers to suicide than to all other jobsite accidents combined.
We’ve mastered physical safety — hard hats, harnesses, LOTO — but we still have no protocol for the
Internal Fall™, the one that happens while a worker is standing on solid ground.
This isn’t a weakness problem or lack-of-caring problem.
It’s a Translation Gap — Corporate FM vs. Worker AM — where leadership intent and jobsite reality speak two different languages.
Years ago, I chose the Exit. But someone handed me a Ladder instead.
Now I go first with my story so others don’t have to go last with theirs.
NCCER Consultant • ABC Speaker • CURT Safety Panelist • CONEXPO-CON/AGG • CNR
