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From whalers to warships, Hull is justly proud of its maritime history spanning 800 years. For the last 250 of these, Lloyd’s Register has been an integral part of the port’s seafaring activity. Surveyors at the Register’s Hull office were early pioneers of the safety measures still protecting seafarers today. Now our association with Hull is being explored by the city’s university with the help o

The report, named 'Building on the Manifesto for Sharing Engineering Data', was produced as part of a project funded by Lloyd's Register FoundationThis report is the result of a project by the Open Data Institute (ODI), funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which began in December 2019. The project follows a previous collaboration between Lloyd's Register Foundation and ODI, which explored how sh

Search and rescue (SAR) services are needed on the world’s oceans, rivers and waterways even during a pandemic – but the act of saving lives under these circumstances can put rescuers and those they rescue in harm’s way.Over 320,000 people worldwide drown every year so search and rescue is a vital service which carries on being needed as long as people and vessels are on the water. Keeping essenti

Lloyd's Register Foundation's latest foresight review explores regulating in a disruptive world.How do you successfully protect a world that is grappling with an accelerating pace of change and growing uncertainty as a result of technology adoption, sweeping social change and the meshing of industries and national borders?That’s the topic explored in the latest foresight review commissioned by glo

Lloyd’s Register Foundation, The UN Global Compact and CNRS launch the Safe Seaweed Coalition to drive a sustainable seaweed industry.Lloyd’s Register Foundation and The United Nations Global Compact, in partnership with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRNS), today launched a global coalition to support a safe, sustainable and scalable seaweed industry to address some of the worl

Lloyd’s Register Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of a new trustee, former Whitehall Permanent Secretary, Dame Una O’Brien.Una has wide-ranging experience of healthcare policy and government having held a variety of senior policy roles across government and the NHS over a 30-year career in public service.  Whilst working primarily in and for the Department of Health, she was also

A well-known mathematical method, routinely used as a predictive tool in engineering and the physical sciences for more than 70 years, has been radically redesigned in landmark collaborative research led by The Alan Turing Institute.Headed by Professor Mark Girolami (Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at the Turing, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Royal Academy of E

New report raises awareness about the importance of employee mental health in maintaining safety across critical infrastructure industries.Mental health: The global pictureIn 2017 it was estimated that around 792 million people worldwide were living with at least one form of mental health condition; this is slightly over 10.7% of the global population. Some predict that if current trends continue,

New report from Engineering X shows scale and complexity of the problem is poorly understood, and a diverse and inclusive community of practice needed to address the many safety challenges.A major global study of what happens to consumer goods and other engineered products at the end of their useful life has found widespread use of unsafe management and disposal practices and calls for urgent acti