How Traveling Workforces Can Prevent Suicide Through Lived-Experience Leadership

Join host, Dr Sally Spencer-Thomas and guest speaker Francisco Valenzuela as they discuss how Fly-In Fly-Out (FIFO) work can quietly erode mental health, strain families, and elevate suicide risk if workplaces aren’t designed with human realities in mind. Hosted by the IASP Suicide and the Workplace Special Interest Group. Francisco shares how FIFO environments create a high-risk ecosystem shaped by isolation, long rotations, masculine norms, fatigue, and limited access to care - and how those same systems can be redesigned to protect lives, strengthen culture, and improve the bottom line.