A two-day working room · Paris

Decoding Safety From Science to Strategy

Thirty EHS leaders in one high-level thinking room in the middle of Paris. One integrated, strategic and operational view of safety, built across four multinationals — and the science that explains why it works.

The scientist

Jean-Christophe
Le Coze

Head of Research / Visiting Professor. Twenty years of extensive fieldwork across industries, theoretical developments and publications, including the books “Beyond Organisational Accidents” (2026), “Safety in the Digital Age” (2023), “Post Normal Accident” (2020) and “Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions” (2019).Meet him on Day 0, drink in hand.

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The practitioner

Malcolm
Staves

Global VP EHS, L'Oréal. Thirty-five years running health and safety across Alcan, Pechiney, American National Can and L'Oréal — the integrated, strategic and operational view you'll work with grew out of that experience: built, tested and simplified in the field.He'll be at your table more than at the front.

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02The premise

A note from the faculty

Malcolm StavesPractice Jean-Christophe Le CozeScience

The aim

Thirty EHS leaders.Two days. One room.

High-level thinking and systems (re)mapping — not a conference, not a classroom. You work through an integrated, strategic and operational view of safety, built up, tested and simplified across four blue-chip multinationals, and the research on why it holds up, with plenty of time for group tasks and faculty-assisted testing against your own company and your own system.

And nothing to sell you at the end of it. No programme, no software, no follow-up package — two people sharing what they know with peers, and the door left open for a candid email or a call afterwards if you want one.

50years of safety science, distilled

35+years running EHS inside global multinationals

9themes, worked through as one system

1view of safety you won't find online

Question 01

What is your systemactually made of —and who built it?

Structure, governance, headquarters and sites, the programmes that reinforce each other and the ones quietly working against each other. Map the layers before you judge them.

Question 02

Which of yournumbers stillmean anything?

Triangles, leading and lagging indicators, KPIs that measure activity versus KPIs that measure understanding. What to count, what to stop counting, and what the board actually needs to see.

Question 03

How much freedomcan a site havebefore the frame breaks?

Centralisation against local reality. Global standards that get interpreted, adapted, sometimes improved. Where ambiguity is healthy — and where, for serious-injury risk, it has to be engineered out.

Question 04

What do yourleaders do onthe floor?

Visible leadership, trust, participation, the quality of a conversation at the workface — and whether anyone in your organisation measures it, or only counts that it happened.

The promise

You leave with your own system on one page — and a short, honest list of what to change first.

Input from the faculty. Work at the tables. Feedback across the room. Then again, six more times.

04The room

Heavyroundtable work.

Four to six people per table, never more. Malcolm and Jean-Christophe move between the tables while you map your own internal system against the framework — challenging, correcting, comparing notes across companies. There is no other workshop in Europe run this way.

In the room

Jean-Christophe's 21st Century Safety workshop · Paris, November 2024

Round tables set for a small workshop — 21st Century Safety workshop · Paris, November 2024

Jean-Christophe Le Coze running a workshop at EHS Congress 2024 — Jean-Christophe's workshop, EHS Congress 2024

A full room of EHS leaders in discussion — Amsterdam, April 2026 · 170 leaders

Jean-Christophe Le Coze presenting at the second 21st Century Safety workshop — 21st Century Safety, 2nd edition · Paris, June 2026

In the room

Safety On The Edge · Baltimore, USA

30leaders

Around thirty EHS leaders from across industries — so the conversation at your table is rarely with your own colleagues, and always with someone who runs the same problem somewhere else.

01No vendors or software in the seats. The room is operators and corporate safety leaders only.

02You map your own system, live. Table by table, against the framework, with the faculty at your shoulder — and you take the map home.

03Seven blocks, each sixty to ninety minutes. Short input from the faculty, then heavy work at the tables, then feedback across the whole room.

04Both evenings are part of it. Drinks in hand on Day 0 to break the ice, dinner with Malcolm and Jean-Christophe after Day 1.

05Nothing to sell you. No product, no course, no programme, no software. Two people sharing thirty-five years of practice and twenty of research with their peers — and if you want a candid email or a call afterwards, that's free too.

The science on the table

Point at one.

The ideas and controversies of the moment. Every block puts one on the table, and you place your own practice against it. Hover or tap.

05The agenda

Two days.Seven blocks. One system — yours.

Decoding Safety: From Science to Strategy — workshop flyer, Paris, 23–24 March 2027

Seven workshops in one. At a conference you get one topic in ninety minutes; here every block is its own workshop — and they all connect.

Each block carries the science, the controversy that surrounds it, and how it was operationalised in practice — then your table works out what it means for your own organisation. No two blocks open the same way: some start with the research, some with Malcolm's practice, some with a question put straight to the room.

D1Tuesday 23 MarchHalf a century of safety science · the multinational challenge · beyond Heinrich's triangle · people at the sharp end · designing a safe workplace · dinner with the faculty

D2Wednesday 24 MarchMetrics that drive performance · centralise or decentralise · from EHS expert to leader · audit, compliance and culture · trust, care and humanism · build your own programme against the model

Shown in the room only · not published

The model.

An integrated, strategic and operational view of safety, on one page — nine interlocking elements, built from four decades of practice across global multinationals, set against what the research says. It is not online and won't be. In the last two hours you hold your own system against it: which elements you have, which you're missing, which is worth building next.

Provisional running order. Times and block titles may still move; the themes won't.

06The themes

Nine themesone system.

The critical topics every multinational has to get right in health and safety — and none of them can be handled on its own. Each theme brings the science, the controversy and the practice, then turns to your organisation. You leave with something you can use on Monday: a clear view of your own system and a short, honest list of what to do about it.

Half a century of safety science

Fifty years of research and practice, distilled: where the ideas came from, and why the field still argues about them.

The multinational challenge

Global standards meeting local reality — and how much freedom a site can take before the frame breaks.

Beyond Heinrich's triangle

Designing for serious injuries and fatalities, not for the count. SIF and PSIF, operationalised, from one blunt question: how could someone be killed here today?

People at the sharp end

From behaviour to engagement, human-centric safety and leading with safety, and what genuinely changes what people do.

Designing a safe workplace

Engineering and ergonomics together: human factors as the foundation of how work is designed, not an afterthought.

Metrics that drive performance

Leading and lagging, quantitative and qualitative — and the limits every KPI set eventually runs into.

From EHS expert to leader

The safety function as a business partner rather than a cost — and leadership as the thing that decides whether any of it works.

Audit: compliance meets culture

What audits see, what they miss, and whether you can audit culture without flattening it.

Trust, care and humanism

The human side as a driver of performance, not a soft extra. And the hard question: can you put it on a dashboard?

By 16:00 on the 24th

Your system on one page, in your own hand — and what to change first.

The network

Arrive as strangers.Leave as a network.

Peers who run the same problem

Around thirty senior EHS leaders, benchmarking openly at the table. For many people in industry, the contacts are worth as much as the content.

Still in touch long after March

People from Jean-Christophe's earlier workshops kept talking about the topics they worked through — a circle to keep building skills, competence, confidence and knowledge with.

Two faculty on first-name terms

Malcolm and Jean-Christophe at your table for two days, at dinner on the 23rd, and a candid email or call afterwards if you want one.

07Paris

Parisin the middle of it.

Two days in the centre of Paris with thirty EHS leaders — thinking, working, and quite possibly having a bit of fun doing it.

Both evenings are part of it

22March · Monday evening

Evening one

Drinksreception

Arrive the evening before, get a drink in your hand and break the ice on Day 0 — the other twenty-nine and both faculty are already there. Nobody has a name badge on yet. Included.

23March · Tuesday, 19:30

Evening two

Dinner withthe faculty

Work hard through Day 1, then an awesome dinner with Malcolm, Jean-Christophe and the whole room — the conversations that don't fit in a session happen here. Then back to heavy work on Day 2. Included.

Both evenings

VenueCentral Paris

A room big enough for six tables and proper roundtable work.

IncludedBoth days, both evenings

Lunch and refreshments on both days. Reception, dinner, and the delegate list.

Not includedAccommodation

Book your own; the venue is easy to reach from anywhere central.

TimingTue – Wed

23–24 March 2027. Reception on the 22nd. Day two ends at 16:00 for evening trains and flights.

08Seats

Your seattwo prices, one room.

Around thirty leaders in the room. The first ten seats go at the early price from 1 October — €350 below the standard price that applies from 1 December, or as soon as the ten are gone.

30leaders in the room · 10 at the early price

Tier 01Early

From 1 October 2026Limited to the first ten seats. When they are gone, the standard price applies.

€850~~€1,200~~

Tier 02Standard

From 1 December 2026The price for the remaining seats once the early ten are taken.

€1,200

Every seat includes both full days, the reception on the 22nd, dinner on the 23rd, lunch and refreshments on both days, and the delegate list. Accommodation and breakfast are not included. All prices are net.

Invoice and wire transfer available. In collaboration: 21st Century Safety (Jean-Christophe Le Coze) and Hummingbird Leadership (Malcolm Staves), organised by IFS Group Kft., the team behind EHS Congress.

Register
or ask what's on your mind.

Nothing is sold in the room and nothing follows you home — no programme, no software, no upsell. Registration runs through our online shop — pick your seat, pay by card or request an invoice for wire transfer, and your place is confirmed by email. Early seats open on 1 October 2026.

Thirty companies. One conversation you can't have at your own head office.

In collaboration: 21st Century Safety (Jean-Christophe Le Coze) and Hummingbird Leadership (Malcolm Staves), organised by IFS Group Kft., the team behind EHS Congress.Further workshop updates: follow Decoding Safety on LinkedIn ↗Aron Tőzsér · Managing DirectorWhatsApp +36 70 702 0432

Decoding SafetyFrom Science to Strategy

Paris · 23–24 March 2027

Thirtyleadersone seat is yours.

Early seats from 1 October at €850, limited to the first ten. A collaboration between 21st Century Safety and Hummingbird Leadership, organised by IFS Group Kft., the team behind EHS Congress.