The leadership team of Keybuild, Kev, Kevin and Charlie, have decades of experience in construction, and their passion for suicide prevention sadly comes from many people they have known from the industry, families and communities who have died by suicide.

Keybuild Services has been awarded the 2025 Suicide Prevention Australia Award for 'Best Practice in the Workplace' category, nominated by MATES QLD/NT Field Officer, Justin Geange.

They made a commitment when they began their business to ensure they would do whatever it takes to look after each and everyone of their employees – not only to ensure they looked out for each other, but that they understood if they were struggling there was a place for them to obtain help and support.

So with that at the heart of Keybuild, they have fully engaged with the MATES in Construction program, ensuring every team member goes through General Awareness Training (110 employees inducted to date). Everyone who volunteers for Connector systematically goes through that training, and the same for those who volunteer for ASIST training. Keybuild have put all their apprentices through Apprentice Resilience training and every Supervisor through Supervisor training (both Pre–Prevention programs). Connector and ASIST-trained staff have also gone through Respond, the latest postvention training provided by MATES.

Not satisfied with that, Keybuild has taken part in Blueprint research, with the objective of creating a mentally health workplace, encouraging every employee to undertake the research ‘People at Work – Construction’ surveys. These employee-focussed surveys provide deidentified feedback to the company as to how they are doing in the space of looking after their employee’s mental health and wellbeing.