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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The surprising hurdle holding back climate action
Pedro Conceição, Director of the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme, explores the consequences of the perception gap identified in the World Risk Poll.
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Quiet hazards at work are becoming harder to ignore
Our statistical systems measure only part of the burden of occupational risks, explains Balint Nafradi, Technical Officer on OSH data at the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Global concern about climate change reaches record high
Global concern about climate change has hit a record high, with 75% of people worldwide viewing it as a serious threat. However, intensity of concern is declining in wealthier nations, and a widespread perception gap is quietly undermining collective climate action.
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Driving efforts to future-proof global port ecosystems
Ports are the backbone of the global economy, handling 80% of global trade, and contributing to 2.6% of global GDP. But climate hazards are placing our port systems under threat, affecting business continuity and causing economic loss.
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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