What is Psychological Safety?
Psychological safety is the shared belief that it is safe to speak up, share concerns, report errors, or suggest new ideas without fear of negative consequences like embarrassment, blame, or career penalisation.
While many companies include 'psychological safety' in their corporate values brochures, safety isn't created by writing policy documents. It is felt and decided in the ordinary, micro-moments of daily work.
How Safety is Communicated Daily
Employees observe how leadership behaves in normal meetings to calculate their own psychological safety.
"Psychological safety is not about being nice. It's about being candid, learning from failures, and supporting risk-taking."