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Evidence and insight
Discover how Lloyd's Register Foundation is generating, collating and sharing the best evidence and insight on what works to improve safety.
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Countries are included in the latest World Risk Poll.
Evidence is critical to improving safety – but often does not yet exist or is not easily accessible.
Across the world and across different sectors, there is a huge opportunity to improve safety outcomes by generating better quality evidence on both the scale and nature of the challenges, and on what works to address them. But simply generating that evidence is not enough – it must also be relevant, understandable, accessible and actionable by those in a position to put it into practice.
That’s why, underpinning all our other areas of work – be it in the maritime sector, on critical infrastructure, or in occupational safety and health more broadly – Lloyd’s Register Foundation has always had a commitment to generating, collating and sharing more robust evidence to better understand the complex factors that affect safety.
Taking this commitment one step further, the Foundation is working towards the establishment of a Global Safety Evidence Centre, which will serve as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for anyone who needs to know ‘what works’ to make people safer – collating the best evidence from our partners and other sources, as well as providing a home for the Foundation’s own evidence outputs, such as our flagship World Risk Poll.
Explore our work in this area below.
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Nancy Hey Director of Evidence and Insight
Across all areas of the Foundation's work, generating, collating and sharing the best evidence on what works to improve safety is at the heart of what we do.
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Exploring household preparedness in the complex multi-hazard context of Nakuru, Kenya
This year, researchers from King’s College London and Cardiff University completed data generation in Nakuru, Kenya, for the Foundation-funded project ‘Improving household preparedness in multi-hazard contexts'.
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Reflections from the UN Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction
Researchers Faith Taylor and Peter McGowran (King’s College London), Joel Gill and Molly Gilmour (Cardiff University) are using World Risk Poll data to help improve disaster preparedness in multi-hazard contexts. In this blog, they reflect on opportunities for the project to influence policy and practice at a global scale.
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Navigating the impact of emerging technologies on worker health, safety, and wellbeing: what next?
A new report from the Global Safety Evidence Centre assesses the impact of emerging technologies on worker safety. In this blog Hampton Toole and Giulia Maistrello from RAND Europe explore how employers can navigate the challenges.
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What three major risk reports tell us about the world’s risk landscape
The World Risk Poll provides an everyday, lived experience perspective on risk and safety that complements expert risk analysis. In this blog Nancy Hey, our Director of Evidence and Insight, breaks down how the risks identified compare.
World Risk Poll
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll is the first and only global study of worry about, and harm from, risks to people’s safety.
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