Articles by Dr Rob Long

November 3, 2019November 3, 2019

Unanswered Questions and Mental Health

Yesterday we went to a memorial function for a friend whose daughter suicided, Sam was 36. These are always very troubling occasions with many tears and many more unanswered questions. We went to a local restaurant/bar which was a… Read the rest

October 31, 2019November 5, 2019

What Can Halloween tell us About Safety?

Halloween is not an Australian thing indeed, as a child in the 1960s and 1970s there was simply no interest in Halloween in Australia. However, with growing syncretism between US and Australian cultures since the Vietnam War the festival and… Read the rest

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

STEM Safety in Drag

All humans select metaphors and metonymies to form coherent systems in terms of which they conceptualize experience. In safety the predominant grammar is mechanistic anchored to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). Even if one claims in safety some… Read the rest

October 26, 2019November 5, 2019

Why Safety is Inescapably Theological

The moment Safety drifts into questions of life, death, suffering, pain, harm and ‘saving lives’ it has no way to go except a trajectory into theology. We observe this in Dekker’s book ‘The End of Heaven, Disaster and Suffering in… Read the rest

October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

The Essentials of Supervision in Risk

It is a strange that people who rise to levels of supervisor receive little or no education in supervision. I find all the time that whilst executives receive significant investment in professional development that we often expect people who… Read the rest

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