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Safety Obsession as a Mental Illness

January 4, 2025 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I never get surprised these days about the obsessions of Safety and of its fundamentalist extremism. The denialism of fallibility, the self-identity AS safety (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-is-not-your-life/) and the salvation theology is mindboggling … [Read more...] about Safety Obsession as a Mental Illness

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: safety hero, super hero

Understanding Mental Health as a Wicked Problem

June 7, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the great Cons in Safety is that mental health is a brain problem, cognition problem, simple, easy or a behavioural problem (https://safetyrisk.net/the-aihs-phs-con/ ). Mental health is about none of these and it certainly can’t be helped by a checklist app based on behaviourism. Anyone … [Read more...] about Understanding Mental Health as a Wicked Problem

Filed Under: Mental health, Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Wicked Problems Tagged With: safety hero

Why Would You Want to be a Safety “Geek’ or Hero?

August 6, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I find this fixation on identity AS Safety so amusing (https://safetyrisk.net/the-mental-illness-of-identifying-as-safety/). When I meet people in real professions, they never introduce themselves as Teacher Tom or Doctor Debbie or Lawyer Lousie. Similarly, real professionals never identify with … [Read more...] about Why Would You Want to be a Safety “Geek’ or Hero?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: safety geek, safety hero, safety nerd

The Mythic Symbology of Safety

January 13, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Mythic Symbology of Safety One of the strange contradictions in the world of safety is between the positivist materialist paradigm that dominates the WHS curriculum/texts and the mythic symbology that dominates safety discourse about the activity of enacting safe-work. How strange that one … [Read more...] about The Mythic Symbology of Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Myths, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: hero myth, safety hero, STEM

No Gurus, No Stars, No Heroes Needed in Safety

May 13, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

No Gurus, No Stars, No Heroes Needed in Safety The discourse of gurus and heroes in the safety industry draws attention away from everyday realities (https://safetyrisk.net/everyday-safety/) of tackling risk. The endless quest for silver bullets and ‘safety programs’ is a distraction from the basic … [Read more...] about No Gurus, No Stars, No Heroes Needed in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: paper safe, safety hero

Are You a Safety Clown?

January 13, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Are You a Safety Clown? When I was at school the insult often thrown about at students by teachers in High School was ‘don’t be a clown!’ It was intended to be an insult as the concept of the travelling circus was common when I was a kid, usually Ashton’s Circus … [Read more...] about Are You a Safety Clown?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Leadership Tagged With: clowns, safety hero

I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero

May 12, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 17 Comments

I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero I try to avoid attending safety conferences as much as I can as I find them depressing and lacking vision. Each time I am compelled to go I am never surprised by the kind of delusional stuff believed by the industry. The worst is the myth of the safety hero. … [Read more...] about I Have the Power, I’m a Safety Hero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: hero myth, safety hero

Safety Craziness This Month

August 24, 2017 by Admin Leave a Comment

Safety Craziness This Month Some pretty crazy safety stuff has landed in my inbox so far this month. There is always a steady trickle, but for some reason, this month has been a little bit special. These two were my favourites: Where Are the Safety Heroes? To quote the from this article from … [Read more...] about Safety Craziness This Month

Filed Under: Simplistic Safety Tagged With: crazy words, safety hero

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