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It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: Bird Construction’s Jason Ross on Men’s Mental Health in the Trades

Six years ago, driving out of a northern Manitoba job site in a snowstorm, Jason Ross thought he was having a heart attack. It was a panic attack, and it put him on the path to talking openly about mental health with construction crews across Canada.Jason is a health and safety manager at Bird Construction with about 25 years in the industry. He chairs Bird's mental health employee resource group (ERG) and spends half his time on job sites talking with crews about mental health. In this episode of the Safety Spotlight, he tells Marc Hurtubise what happened on that drive, what has helped him…

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