Global safety charity Lloyd’s Register Foundation has today launched its six-year strategy to tackle the world’s biggest safety challenges, and announced a new Evidence and Insight Centre to identify the sectors and areas of the world most in need of safety interventions.

The new centre will be based in London and is the first of its kind globally to focus solely on safety and risk. This new global safety observatory will identify gaps in knowledge in order to fund and encourage better data collection, it will also generate evidence from the data that does exist to kick start new interventions. The centre will build a network of data holders, researchers, and partners with a role in developing safety standards and regulations.

The centre’s announcement is part of the Foundation’s new six-year strategy, which aims to tackle global safety statistics. Richard Clegg, CEO at Lloyd’s Register Foundation, said: “Our strategy starts with evidence – we will strive to understand the complex factors that most affect safety. Our interventions will be driven by evidence of what works – in fact, we plan to build the world’s best centre for safety evidence and insight which others can use. We want to have a big impact, so we are focusing on a few big challenges with big goals, for example, making the sea safer, making food safer and improving society’s understanding of risk.”

Sarah Cumbers, Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Director of the Evidence and Insight Centre, said: “We’re determined to make a real change in the world around us, that means understanding where there are gaps in safety data, and where unsafe practices are continuing. Only then can we formulate and fund the right interventions with our partners. I’m proud to be heading up the first global centre for safety evidence and insight, which will play a tangible part in driving down preventable deaths around the world.”

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