Global Safety Evidence Centre for mining and quarrying

A £15mln investment in the centre will take place over 10 years.

It has been launched and funded by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation to serve as an information hub to make people safer in the face of a range of global safety challenges, including workplace accidents and injuries.

In addition to occupational safety and health (OSH) practitioners and policymakers, the centre aims to support professionals across different industries, including the mining and quarrying sector, with high-quality and actionable resources and evidence.

The need for such a centre is demonstrated by two reports, produced by RAND Europe on behalf of the Foundation. The reports – including a systematic review of OSH intervention reviews, and the findings of a consultation with OSH practitioners in high-risk sectors around the world – highlight a worrying scarcity of reliable, high-quality evidence on the comparative effectiveness of different safety measures, and a need to make evidence more relevant and accessible to practitioners in different global and industrial contexts.

£2mln is available now for researchers worldwide to apply to help fill the evidence gaps. The Centre is also recruiting data analysts and research managers. 

The Global Safety Evidence Centre will collate, create and communicate the best available safety evidence from the Foundation, its partners and other sources on the nature and scale of global safety challenges, and what works to tackle them.

Further publications by the Centre this summer include a report on the growing impact of emerging technologies – including virtual reality training. The Centre will also publish a report on the relationship between climate change and OSH – an important priority for the ILO.