What the world worries about: global perceptions and experiences of risk and harm
In a rapidly changing world, understanding the risks individuals face, and how they perceive them, is crucial to keeping people safe.
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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.
147,000
147,000
people interviewed for the latest World Risk Poll.
142
142
the latest edition of the Poll collected insights from 142 countries.
£3 million
£3 million
invested by Lloyd's Register Foundation in projects to put the World Risk Poll into Action.
Dr Zurina Moktar Assistant Director and Head of the Science and Technology Division, ASEAN Secretariat
When we use data from the World Risk Poll, it facilitates evidence-based policymaking that is not only technically sound but also socially grounded.
Focus On: Risk perceptions and experiences of ocean workers
This short ‘Focus On’ report presents the findings of a new analysis of World Risk Poll data collected in 2023, focusing on the risk perceptions and experiences of ocean workers – those who work on or near water.
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2019 World Risk Poll
The 2019 World Risk Poll explores a variety of themes, including food and water safety, occupational health and safety, and climate change.
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Enhancing global workplace safety knowledge: harmonising international occupational safety and health datasets
The OSH-Connect team from Monash University are using World Risk Poll data to build a single-source global database of country level occupational safety and health (OSH) statistics.
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What makes people feel safe?
In this blog, Busayo Onanaye, Junior Data Analyst at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre, explores what we can learn from people’s reported feelings of safety in the World Risk Poll.
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Leading a culture of safety
Joao David Santos, Head of Sustainability at the maritime and port services company, discusses how the leadership team established their culture of safety.
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Technological change and occupational safety
Professor Milena Nikolova from the University of Groningen is using World Risk Poll data to analyse how changing technologies affect safety in the workplace across different industries and countries, informing more targeted safety interventions.