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Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global safety charity with an important mission: to engineer a safer world.

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total value of grants portfolio (live and complete).

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current and former grants across the globe.

The Lloyd's Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre

Collating, creating and communicating the best available evidence on 'what works' to improve safety.

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Global Safety Evidence Centre funding call 2025

£2 million is available for research projects that address safety evidence gaps.

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Strengthening the global evidence base for occupational safety and health

In this blog, Giulia Maistrello, Senior Analyst at RAND Europe introduces the findings from two new reports. These reports underpin the Global Safety Evidence Centre’s new evidence programme on safe work, exploring both the evidence needs of safety practitioners and the evidence currently available to support them.

Dr Ruth Boumphrey Chief Executive, Lloyd's Register Foundation

Protecting people from harm, ensuring the infrastructure that we depend on for day-to-day living is safe for society both now and in the future, and ensuring the world has the right engineering skills and education required to keep people safer, all remain the driving force behind everything we do.

Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chief Executive, Ruth Boumphrey

Webinar: Is workplace safety training working?

Watch our free webinar as we explore the extent of harm, the frequency of reporting, and the extent of safety training taking place globally, across different countries, job sectors and demographic groups.

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