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Don’t be Obsessed with Safety

November 4, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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Obsession is one of the first indicators of a mental health disorder (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996422000834 ). A good example is OCD (https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd). Any obsession is not good yet, here we are in risk and … [Read more...] about Don’t be Obsessed with Safety

Filed Under: Mental health, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: obsession

A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills

October 30, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills We last published a short article on Psychosocial Safety by Dr Robert Long here: What is Psychosocial Safety. Rob has kindly given us permission to publish the entire guide. DOWNLOAD THE PAPER HERE: A Guide to Psychosocial Safety … [Read more...] about A Guide to Psychosocial Safety Skills

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Safety Leadership Tagged With: behaviour based safety, Psychological Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Safety Culture, safety slogan

Mindfulness is NOT Brain-fullness and other Psychosocial Myths

October 7, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The exchange of the word ‘mind’ for ‘brain’ perpetuates a host of myths that are dangerous and harmful (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353526/) for psychosocial health. The human Mind is NOT the brain but should be understood to mean ‘whole person’. This is why defining personhood … [Read more...] about Mindfulness is NOT Brain-fullness and other Psychosocial Myths

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: holistic ergonomics, mindfulness, socialitie

Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?

September 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

October is apparently ‘safety month’, a great idea to generate tokenism compared to other months. This year I see the ‘SafeTea chat’ initiative. Sounds like a great idea for open conversations and trusting-listening, hmmm, not likely. Even the expression ‘WHS discussions’ is use but? None of this … [Read more...] about Have You Had a Drink of SafeTea?

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: SafeTea, safety month

If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

September 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

  As long as Safety is founded in the nonsense of injury rate counting and zero, it will never ever be able to tackle the challenges of psychosocial health. The fundamental problem for Safety is, it doesn’t know what to do with fallibility, mortality, vulnerability, corporeal being and … [Read more...] about If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: fallibility

Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk

September 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: embodiment, psychosocial risk

7 Golden Rules that are NOT Golden

August 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The more you look into the so called ‘7 golden rules of zero’, the more you realise just how much zero toxifies the process of tackling risk. Have a look at the checklist with so called ‘golden rule’ two and have a look at the language. What is noticed first is that all of this is just … [Read more...] about 7 Golden Rules that are NOT Golden

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: golden rules

Why Zero Vision Can Never Tackle Mental Health

August 17, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The foundation of zero is intolerance. Zero is absolute and dominates the safety industry. It is the most mentioned language in the upcoming Zero Congress to be held in November in Sydney. Indeed, it is described by the Congress as the ‘common denominator’ of safety … [Read more...] about Why Zero Vision Can Never Tackle Mental Health

Filed Under: Mental health, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: 23rd world congress

If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking

August 10, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

An Aspiration for Nothing or If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking There’s no point in having an aspiration or wish for a safe workplace if it’s just ‘pie in the sky’. There is no point in wishing for nothing, that’s what Zero does … [Read more...] about If Psychosocial Health Matters, Stop Hot Desking

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: hotdesking

The Mental Illness of Identifying as Safety

August 5, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the crazy trends in safety is the identification as Safety.If you read nonsense like the Zero Index, full of behaviourist gobbledygook, you will see it has an index (of course more measurement). Somehow this goop is ‘thought leadership’ and visionary, it is neither. Indeed, it is the … [Read more...] about The Mental Illness of Identifying as Safety

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long, Zero Harm Tagged With: duPont, zero index

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