Safer maritime systems
Safety across the maritime system is a key consideration in building a sustainable ocean.
Engineering
a safer world.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is an independent global safety charity with an important mission: to engineer a safer world.
158
158
grants currently live.
£237m
£237m
total value of grants portfolio (live and complete).
524
524
current and former grants across the globe.
The Lloyd's Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre
Collating, creating and communicating the best available evidence on 'what works' to improve safety.
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A Year of Impact 2025
Celebrating our charitable mission in practice, these stories highlight the progress we’ve made together - with our partners, colleagues and global grants community to make people safer across the world.
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Latest News
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Securing our oceans: challenges and opportunities for autonomous maritime vehicles
With 90% of global goods transported by sea, maritime efficiency is vital to the world's economy. AI and autonomous vessels offer exciting opportunities to cut emissions and improve shipping, but these technologies bring significant cybersecurity risks that must be addressed to ensure safe, trustworthy maritime operations.
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Supporting road safety and health messaging in Kenya
With support from Lloyd's Register Foundation's small grants initiative, international development organisation Transaid launched the Madereva Salama Zaidi campaign, combining road safety education with accessible health services - reaching thousands of drivers with practical, life-saving support across Kenya.
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Accelerating zero-emission shipping by human-centred design
New Lloyd’s Register Foundation–funded project aims to change how zero‑emission ships are designed by putting people at the centre.
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Global trends in safety and risk
Ahead of the launch of the next edition of the World Risk Poll in June, Busayo Onanaye, Junior Data Analyst at the Lloyd's Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre, explores whether predictions made based on the 2019 Poll data have stood the test of time – analysing global trends in risk and safety across all three Polls to date (2019-2023).
Dr Ruth Boumphrey Chief Executive, Lloyd's Register Foundation
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 engineering skills and education required to keep people safer, all remain the driving force behind everything we do.
Our partners
We are most effective when we work together with other organisations who share our mission to engineer a safer world.
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