Psychological Safety Week

Learn how your organisation can use Psychological Safety Week to promote open communication, trust and respect, helping employees feel valued, heard and supported.

The value of supporting Psychological Safety Week

Psychological Safety Week is a great opportunity for workplaces to share resources, start conversations and grow awareness of psychological safety at work.

These actions can encourage the behaviours that help people feel safe to speak up, ask questions and share ideas.

When people feel safe to ask questions, admit mistakes and respectfully challenge decisions, teams are more likely to identify problems early, learn from experience and develop better ways of working.

Ways to get involved in Psychological Safety Week

Share information and resources

Use your internal communication channels to increase awarenss of psychological safety. You could share tips, examples of good practice or conversation prompts for teams to use in meetings.

Visit the Psychological Safety Week website to download a toolkit.

Host an event

Consider inviting in an expert speaker, senior leader or someone with lived experience to talk about creating psychologically safe work environments.
Encourage employees to ask questions and offer ways to ask them both anonymously and in-person.

The Psychological Safety Week website also has live sessions running throughout the week.

Encourage feedback

Create ways to share feedback across your organisation. This could be a short survey, a suggestions box or through team discussions.

Respond to employee feedback in a timely and meaningful way, showing how it has been considered and used to drive improvement.

Supporting psychological safety at work throughout the year

Psychological safety at work means employees feel able to speak openly and honestly about their work without fear of embarrassment, exclusion or unfair treatment.

Psychological safety develops through everyday behaviour, effective leadership and fair workplace systems.

Here are some ways you can build psychological safety in your workplace throughout the year:

• Set clear expectations and lead by example
• Create opportunities for employees to speak up
• Respond positively when people speak up

Find out more

Find out how your workplace can take part in the campaign and access useful resources on the Psychological Safey Week website.

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