Psych Safety Day / Week 2027

Once a year (sometimes more often than that!) we get folks from the Psych Safety community into one space, virtual or physical, to compare notes. Psych Safety Days sit alongside our smaller meet-ups and events as the point in the year where practitioners from healthcare, aviation, construction, software, education, emergency services and manufacturing find out what everyone else has been trying, what worked, and (often more usefully) what didn’t.

These aren’t conferences in the usual sense. There’s no keynote circuit, no sponsor track, and no one on stage selling a framework. The people presenting are the people doing the work: team leads, safety practitioners, clinicians, researchers, engineers, HR and OD folk, all of whom turn up as participants for the rest of the day. We deliberately keep the format loose enough that the conversations between sessions matter as much as the sessions themselves.

On research and evidence. We actively want academic work in the programme, with two conditions: the paper and its underlying data need to be available to everyone in the room, and the findings need to be presented in language a practitioner can act on. Open access, stated limitations, and honest uncertainty are all welcome. Paywalled results and proprietary “our model shows” claims are not: if we can’t inspect it, we can’t learn from it.

What 2027 might look like. We’re shaping the programme now, and we’re leaning towards a hybrid or fully virtual format. Travel costs, visas, caring responsibilities, accessibility needs and carbon all determine who gets to be in the room, and we’d rather not let geography decide whose experience counts. We’re also seriously considering stretching it into a full Psych Safety Week — a distributed run of sessions, local meet-ups and online workshops across several days, if there’s enough appetite for it.

Get involved. We’re looking for people to speak, facilitate a session, share research or a case study, host a local gathering as part of the week, or simply come along and argue with us in good faith. If any of that appeals, get in touch.

Use the code PSYCHSAFETYDAY10 for 10% off our action packs and toolkits and stickers.

Where we’ve been. The first Psych Safety Day ran in New York in 2022. Since then we’ve gathered in Barcelona, Seville and, most recently, Málaga — each one smaller and more useful than any standard corporate conference.

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Tell us here what you’d like Psych Safety Day 2027 to be like and whether you’d like to take part!