Hans van der Loo and his research team asked ten thousand people in the past year about their psychological safety on the shop floor. The conclusion: psychological safety on the Dutch shop floor is not doing well. Together with Joriene Beks, he wrote the book 'Psychological Safety' on the subject. 

The problem

Hans describes a number of problems: "there are five elements based on which psychological safety goes wrong". In the podcast he runs through all five of them: inclusion, participation, discussability of mistakes, degree of involvement and creativity and degree of positivity. Using the five elements, you can identify the problem in your organization.

The solution

"Ideally we will all start building systems, procedures and plans under the heading of a 'psychological safety policy', that is often not the solution" says Hans. It is much more useful to get to work in a very focused way, for example, ask the questions: is there inclusion on the shop floor? Is there positivity? Does everyone participate? If you have to give a negative answer to any of the questions, you've discovered a development point. In the podcast Hans van der Loo explains the factors behind psychological safety, based on this he explains how you can work with a development point.

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More about Hans van der Loo

The book Psychological Safety

Contact

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