Articles by Malcolm Staves

Employers can assist the fightback against coronavirus with simple and low-cost interventions to make health and safety easy, attractive, social and timely.

Malcolm Staves, corporate health and safety director at L’Oréal, on building and maintaining an all-encompassing safety culture across the giant multinational’s sites.

Words: Dr Mike Webster, Dr Jennifer Lunt, Malcolm Staves We hear organisations including regulators saying boards need to engage with safety and health. That sounds like a good idea, but life is not so straightforward. Boards have different priorities, face different issues and sectoral challenges. The regulatory and moral imperatives that drive health and safety practitioners to ensure workers go home safe may be filtered or diluted at the top of the organisation.