Safety Mirror - free psychological safety assessment

About this psychological safety assessment

Psychological safety is the belief that you can speak up, ask questions, make mistakes and disagree at work without fear of punishment or humiliation. Safety Mirror is a free self-check of how psychologically safe you personally feel in your team. You rate 12 statements on a five-point scale from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree. It takes about 3 minutes and needs no sign-up.

The four dimensions

• Inclusion Safety: feeling accepted and safe to belong, as you are.
• Learner Safety: feeling safe to ask questions, experiment and make mistakes.
• Contributor Safety: feeling safe to contribute your ideas and skills.
• Challenger Safety: feeling safe to challenge the status quo and voice disagreement.

What you get

A score and a level for each of the four dimensions with an interpretation, plus the patterns across them (for example high inclusion but low challenger safety). You can also have the report emailed to you.

Who it is for

Employees and leaders who want to reflect on their own experience of their team. It measures your individual perception, not the team as a whole.

Privacy

Your answers are scored in your browser and are not sent to a server unless you ask for the email report. Details: privacy policy.

Frequently asked questions

What is psychological safety?

Psychological safety is the shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking, a concept researched by Amy Edmondson (1999). Timothy R. Clark (2020) described four stages of it: inclusion, learner, contributor and challenger safety.

Is this psychological safety assessment free?

Yes. It is free, with no registration and no payment. Your results appear on screen right after the last statement; the emailed report is optional.

How long does it take?

About 3 minutes: 12 statements, three for each of the four dimensions.

Is Safety Mirror a validated psychometric test?

No. It is a self-reflection tool grounded in published psychological safety research, not a validated psychometric instrument and not a clinical diagnosis.

Can I measure psychological safety for my whole team?

Safety Mirror measures one person's perception. Organisations can run it as a team campaign with aggregated results, use the anonymous Team Satisfaction survey, or work on it with Y2Y team coaching.

Which languages is it available in?

English, Hungarian and German. Use the language switch at the top of the page, or open the Hungarian or German version directly.