# Least Safe Person

*Tom Geraghty · Voice & Silence, Measurement, Politics, Diversity & Equity*

Argues a team is only as safe as the least safe person — and that measuring PS as an average actively hides the outlier who is suffering. Uses a bridge analogy to challenge the common practice of representing team safety as a mean score that masks individual experience.

- **This page:** https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/a-team-is-only-as-safe-as-the-least-safe-person/
- **Read the full article on psychsafety.com:** https://psychsafety.com/a-team-is-only-as-safe-as-the-least-safe-person/
- **Interactive map:** https://explore.psychsafety.com/?node=team-safest-person

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- [Calculus of Voice](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-calculus-of-voice.md)
- [Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/crenshaw-1989.md) (paper)
- [Exploring the Relationship between Team Diversity, Psychological Safety and Team Performance: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Development](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/bresman-edmondson-2022.md) (paper)
- [Making it Safe: The Effects of Leader Inclusiveness and Professional Status on Psychological Safety and Improvement Efforts in Health Care Teams](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/nembhard-edmondson-2006.md) (paper)
- [Not Same for Everyone](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/psychological-safety-isnt-the-same-for-everyone.md)
- [Principles of Ethical Measurement](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/principles-of-ethical-measurement-in-organisations.md)
- [PS, Inclusion & Politics](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/psychological-safety-inclusion-and-political-beliefs.md)
- [Status Characteristics and Social Interaction](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/berger-cohen-zelditch-1972.md) (paper)
- [Why Status Matters for Inequality](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/ridgeway-2014.md) (paper)
- [Barriers to PS](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/barriers-to-psychological-safety.md)
- [Measuring PS](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/measure-psychological-safety.md)
- [PS Quadrant](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/psychological-safety-team-performance-exercise.md)
- [Streetlight Effect](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/the-streetlight-effect.md)
- [Team Charters](https://explore.psychsafety.com/n/psychological-safety-80-team-charters.md)