Strategy 2024-2029

Our 2024-2029 strategy has been created in the context of a continually changing world and remains firmly in line with our charitable mission; to engineer a safer world. 

To deliver our new and ambitious strategy, we are focusing on three priority areas, which are safer maritime systems, safer sustainable infrastructure, and skilled people for safer engineering. 

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 skills and education required to keep people safer remain the driving force behind everything we do. 

To ensure we are driving impact where it is needed the most across our priority areas, we will work to establish the best evidence and insight to better understand safety challenges. Through generating and sharing data and evidence to inform and improve outcomes in safety and our peer review process we can ensure our evidence is credible and expert led.   

Plus, through our maritime heritage archive and assets, we are in a unique position to be able to share learnings from the past to inform, inspire and increase understanding of present and future to help achieve a safer, more sustainable and resilient ocean economy.  

Throughout this strategy, we will be working in five ways to drive positive impact across our areas of focus. 

1. Internationalise - led by local voices, we will make sure that the people who are most impacted by our mission have the strongest say in how they create solutions to make themselves safer. 
2. Influencing others to act – we will help make people and infrastructure safer with compelling communications and through making strong partnerships. 
3. Scale our impact – we will leverage additional resources including our own assets and grant funding to help keep people safer. 
4. Be a trusted voice in safety – we will be led by the best evidence, data, insight and foresight so people are assured that they can depend on our advice. 
5. Connect the maritime system - we know that the maritime economy is growing rapidly around the world, and we're going to strengthen our collective voice to make that growth safe.