Brian Long

Group Health, Safety & Wellbeing Director

A highly successful Health, Safety, and Operational Risk executive with over 25 years of global experience across various industry-leading organisations.

Brian has operated at the corporate level, reporting to Group CEOs and corporate boards, and has also worked at the coalface and on various complex and large execution projects. He profoundly understands product lifecycles and their importance in Health and Safety, noting how critical “”upstream”” stages are to successfully eliminating risks downstream.

Brian’s most outstanding achievement coincided with his time at Lendlease. It culminated in Lendlease (between 2013-18) operating globally, fatality-free, for four and a half years (including amongst contractor and subcontractor bases). The significance of this milestone is reinforced by the fact that during the period immediately before 2013 (2002-2012), Lendlease experienced an average of six (contractor/sub-contractor) fatalities per annum over ten years.

Following 18 successful years at Lendlease, Brian joined AECOM, a global Construction and Engineering firm. During his 20 months there, he transformed the organisation’s approach to Safety, Security, and Sustainability, culminating in the introduction of a risk-based safety program and a commitment to deliver against the science-based target initiative in sustainability. He also partnered on several large transport and engineering clients across the UK, Continental Europe, and the Middle East.

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian returned to Australia to lead the Safety, Health, and Wellbeing department at the Woolworths Group. Brian’s legacy at Woolworths is its partnership with Sonder, a holistic health, safety, and wellbeing support network that ensures crisis support is available to all 195,000 Woolworths employees at the touch of a button, 24/7, 365 days a year. In December 2021, he joined Mirvac on the promise that he would transform the company’s approach to safety and wellbeing, innovating and setting new standards across the industry.

He is a PhD candidate a Loughborough University under the supervision of Patrick Waterson.