Lloyd's Register Foundation's £15 million Global Safety Evidence Centre hopes to establish 'what works' in enforcing safety in the workplace, and plug solution gaps to improve industrial response to safety challenges
Citing the statistic that almost one in five workers (18%) experienced harm at work in the past two years, Lloyd's Register Foundation's centre invites industrialists to reach out for support and to partake in evidence-based initiatives.
Nancy Hey, Lloyd's Register Foundation's director of evidence and insight, said, "Evidence is critical to improving the safety of people and property; without it, we cannot fully understand the nature and scale of safety challenges faced by people around the world, nor what works to protect them from harm.
"However, around the world and across industrial sectors, many professionals, policy and decision-makers who need to consider safety do not have access to sufficient high quality evidence; either because it does not yet exist, or because it has not been collated and communicated to them in an understandable and actionable form."
Global researchers and safety practitioners are invited to apply for a share of £2 million put up by Lloyd's Register Foundation to support projects addressing evidence gaps in workplace safety.
