Open Call: Global Safety Evidence Centre Funding Program

The Global Safety Evidence Centre collates, creates and communicates the best available safety evidence from the Foundation, their partners and other sources, on both the nature and scale of global safety challenges, and what works to address them. It works with partners to identify and fill gaps in the evidence, and to use the evidence for action for anyone who needs to know ‘what works’ to make people safer.

Themes

• Safe Work: the creation of a safe work environment, particularly in ‘high hazard’ industries, building on insights from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll. They are seeking proposals that contribute to the evidence base for the Sustainable Development Goal Promote Safe Working Environments.
• Safety Science: knowledge about risk and safety, and how individuals understand, assess, measure and manage them, at work and in other spheres such as transport, energy or other critical infrastructures. At present safety science terms are poorly defined, occupational safety and health interventions are inconsistent and those that are implemented are typically never evaluated. They are seeking evidence projects to support in defining key terms and approaches, and evidence that seeks to use models and theories to make causal relations in safety evidence.

Focus Areas

• Safety Science: Safety is a broad field with many disciplines, professions and use contexts. They aim to bring together the relevant knowledge, tools and methods across these fields to help improve safety outcomes.
• Safe Work: The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll consistently finds that, one in five workers globally (18%) experienced harm at work in the last two years, and the International Labour Organisation estimates this to be the cause of three million deaths annually.

Funding Information

• Funding for between £100,000 – £250,000 over two years.

Eligible Projects

• Evidence reviews and synthesis: reviewing existing and published global studies, either through established methods for search and assessment or through developing new methodology and capability for global evidence in safety.
• Research, evaluations and trials: building on the current evidence, using established research methods to produce quantitative or qualitative research. They are looking to test theoretical models that clarify the causal relationships between attitudes, behaviours or organisational practices and improvements in safety outcomes.
• Data generation and analysis: reviewing existing data, from organisations and practitioners to gain a deeper understanding.
• Stakeholders, evidence use and policy analysis: researching overlooked areas assessing where the evidence needs are pressing but research outputs have been slow produced to emerge. They are particularly keen to see partnerships with user led programmes and non-governmental organisations within this area.

Eligibility Criteria

• This call is open to academic institutions, research organisations, non-profit organisations and industry worldwide. Collaborations across sectors and disciplines are highly encouraged. Eligible institutions must be actively engaged in research activities that align with Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s mission to engineer a safer world, focusing on safety science and safe work.
• Applications for research are strongly encouraged in the Foundation’s Ocean Centre countries; Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh, India, Philippines and Indonesia, as well as other coastal communities that share geographic and societal characteristics and collaborations.

For more information, visit Lloyd’s Register Foundation.