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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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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.
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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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Understanding the drivers of weather risk perception and preparedness around the world
In 2023, Lloyd’s Register Foundation provided funding to researchers at the University of Leeds to use World Risk Poll data to analyse risk perception and preparedness around the world, with the aim of informing disaster risk communication strategies. In this blog, Dr Andrea Taylor provides an update on the project’s progress.
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The World Risk Poll: an evolving evidence base on global risk and safety
Nancy Hey, Aaron Gardner and Caitlin Vaughan from the Foundation's evidence and insight team discuss the development of the World Risk Poll as it progresses into 2025.
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Fishers’ Safety: turning words into action
Alan McCulla, Coordinator of the International Fund for Fishing Safety, discusses what makes fishing so dangerous, and how we are taking action to save lives at sea.
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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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