A two-day working room · Paris

Decoding Safety From Science to Strategy

One model, built across four multinationals. The science that explains why it works. Twenty-four leaders around the tables.

Reserve a seat The two days

01 — The room

24 seats. 24 companies.
No vendors in the room.

Round tables, not rows. A printed workbook, not a slide deck. Two days built around four questions rather than a list of topics — and the people who will argue with you about them.

02The premise

Most safety systems were never designed. They were accumulated — one programme to solve one problem, another for the next, layer on layer, until nobody in the company can draw the whole thing on one page.

This is two days spent drawing it. Not a conference, not a course: a room of twenty-four senior safety leaders from twenty-four companies, a model built across four multinationals, the research that explains why it holds — and enough time at the table to test both against your own.

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.

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

Roughly forty per cent of the two days is discussion at the tables. The rest is input from the faculty and structured feedback between companies.

03The faculty

Practice on one side.Science on the other.

The practitioner

MalcolmStaves

former Global VP EHS, L'Oréal

Thirty-five years running health and safety inside large industrial companies — building, rebuilding and simplifying systems that had to work in dozens of countries at once. The model you will work with over the two days is his own: what he put in place, what he took out, and what he would do differently now.

AlcanPechineyAmerican National CanL'Oréal

35⁺years in corporate EHS, across four multinationals

The scientist

Jean-ChristopheLe Coze

Research Director, INERIS · safety science, sociology and complex organisations

Twenty years studying how safety ideas were born, how they travelled, and why some of them stopped working when the organisations around them changed. He draws on engineering, human factors, psychology, behavioural science and organisational learning, and is widely published.

In the room he does one thing: connect what Malcolm built to the research that explains why it holds — and where the evidence says it shouldn't.

20years of published research on safety-critical systems

They have run this room together before. The model is his; the questions are theirs; the answers, by the end of day two, are yours.

Malcolm Staves and Jean-Christophe Le Coze presenting together — Staves · Le Coze

04The room

Round tables.Not rows.

Every block runs the same way: input from the faculty, then work at the tables, then feedback between companies. Roughly forty per cent of the two days is you and the people next to you, comparing how it is actually done.

In the room

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

Round tables set for a small workshop — Round tables, set for the day

Delegates working at round tables while the faculty presents — Input, then table work

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

24seats

Twenty-four people from twenty-four companies. One seat per organisation, so the conversation at your table is never with a colleague.

01No vendors, no consultants in the seats. The room is operators and corporate safety leaders only.

02A printed workbook, not a slide deck. You draw your own system in it over the two days and take it home.

03Seven blocks, each sixty to ninety minutes. Input from the faculty, work at the tables, feedback across the room.

04Both evenings are part of it. A drinks reception on the 22nd and dinner with Malcolm and Jean-Christophe on the 23rd.

The thirteen topics

Accident causation and the evolution of safety scienceTriangles, leading and lagging indicatorsOrganisational maturity modelsLeadership engagement, trust and visible leadershipEmpowerment, motivation and participationHuman factors and ergonomicsStructures and governanceHeadquarters and operational sitesCentralisation versus decentralisationFreedom within a frameSafety functions, expertise and capabilityAuditing, assurance and organisational learningMetrics, governance and KPIs

05The two days

Seven blocks.One system — yours.

Provisional running order. Each block is sixty to ninety minutes on the same rhythm: input, table work, feedback.

09:00Opening and introductionsWho is in the room, and what each company brought with them.Staves · Le Coze

09:40The model, and where the ideas came fromMalcolm's model as he built it across four multinationals; Jean-Christophe on the science underneath each element.Staves · Le Coze

10:45Coffee

11:15Leadership, trust and cultural influenceVisible leadership, engagement, and what the evidence says actually changes behaviour.Staves · Le Coze

12:15Lunch

13:15Measurement that means somethingTriangles, leading and lagging indicators, and the difference between counting and understanding.Staves · Le Coze

14:45Coffee

15:15Participation and work designEmpowerment, human factors and ergonomics as foundations for how work is designed.Staves · Le Coze

16:45Close

19:30Dinner with the facultyCentral Paris. Included.Everyone

Day twomap your own.

Wednesday 24 March · 09:00 — 16:00

09:00ResetWhat day one changed in the way you see your own system.Staves · Le Coze

09:20Structure, governance and freedom within a frameCentralisation against local flexibility; where the frame has to be rigid and where it should not be.Staves · Le Coze

10:45Coffee

11:15Capability, assurance and learningSafety functions, internal expertise, auditing and how organisations actually learn.Staves · Le Coze

12:15Lunch

13:15Map your own systemYour company's layers on one page of the workbook, against the model. Table by table.Staves · Le Coze

14:45Coffee

15:15Your shortlist, and closeWhat you will change first, and what you will stop doing.Staves · Le Coze

16:00Ends

06What you take home

Seventhings, one page.

The two days are designed to leave you with things you can use on Monday — not a set of slides, but a clearer view of your own system and a short, honest list of what to do about it.

New insight into leadership, culture and performance

How the three actually connect inside a large organisation — and where they come apart.

Practical approaches to engagement, trust and ownership

What has worked at scale, what has not, and why.

A deeper understanding of safety science, applied

The research behind the practice, in language you can take to a board.

Perspectives on human factors, learning and culture

Where the human-factors and organisational-learning traditions agree with each other, and where they don't.

Effective use of metrics and KPIs

Measurement that supports safety and business performance rather than substituting for understanding.

Frameworks for global consistency with local flexibility

Freedom within a frame, with the frame actually defined.

Practical actions you can apply immediately

Your own shortlist, written in the room, in your own words.

And the workbook

Your system, mapped on one page over the two days. It goes home with you; nothing lives in a slide deck.

1Included

printed.

The workbook

By 16:00 on the 24th

One page that shows what you actually have — and what to change first.

07Paris

Pariscentral, not an airport hotel.

Two full days, and both evenings. The venue is in the centre of the city and is announced to registered delegates.

Monday evening

22March · evening

Evening one

Drinks reception

Arrive the evening before. Meet the other twenty-three, and the faculty, before anyone has a name badge on. Included in the seat.

Tuesday evening

Evening two

Dinner with the faculty

After day one, dinner with Malcolm and Jean-Christophe and the whole room. The conversations that don't fit in a session happen here. Included in the seat.

23March · 19:30

VenueCentral Paris

Announced to registered delegates. Not an airport hotel.

IncludedBoth days, both evenings

Breakfast, lunch and refreshments on both days. Reception, dinner, the workbook, 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

24 seatsthree prices.

One seat per company. The first ten go at the early price from 1 October; the standard price applies from 1 December; a final release only happens in March if anything is left.

24seats in total · 10 at the early price

Tier 01Early

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

€850ex VAT

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Tier 02Standard

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

€1,400ex VAT

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Tier 03Final

March 2027, only if seats remainA last release, not a discount you should plan for. Most years there is nothing left to release.

€1,050ex VAT

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All prices exclude VAT. Every seat includes both full days, the reception on the 22nd, dinner on the 23rd, breakfast, lunch and refreshments on both days, the printed workbook and the delegate list. Accommodation is not included.

Invoice and wire transfer available. Organised by IFS Group Kft., the merchant of record for the workshop.

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Twenty-four companies. One conversation you can't have at your own head office.

Organised by IFS Group Kft.Aron Tőzsér · aron.tozser@ifs-group.org+36 70 702 0432

Decoding SafetyFrom Science to Strategy