
Vikky Goodwin
Senior Information Manager and Lead Mental Health Champion
VolkerRail
Vikky is Lead Mental Health Champion at railway infrastructure contractor VolkerRail. Vikky pioneered the Building Relationships On Site (BROS) programme, which has changed the working environment at the company, making previously uncomfortable conversations feel comfortable. She built the programme with guidance from eight construction managers and six supervisors, with whom she discussed what the company could do differently to account for staff’s working patterns and locations. BROS is based on the concept of colleagues looking out for each other when on location. The programme built on workers’ usual ways of communicating and working together, harnessing that connection for the cause of promoting mental wellbeing.