London — A new research center is intended to “collate, create and communicate the best safety evidence with and for people who can and want to use it to improve safety outcomes.”
Nancy Hey, director of evidence and insight at Lloyd’s Register Foundation, offered that assessment in an introductory video for the Global Safety Evidence Centre. Established by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, an “independent global safety charity,” the center will consult with safety experts to share “what works,” such as safety resources and evidence to help prevent workplace incidents and injuries.
In October, the foundation’s World Risk Poll found that 18% of workers worldwide – or roughly 667 million – have endured serious harm on the job in the past two years. Notably, 49% of such cases are unreported.
“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,” Hey said in a press release.
“However, around the world and across industrial sectors, many professionals and 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.”
