Skills for Safety

Overview

Low-income and newly industrialised countries require huge amounts of investment, infrastructure upgrades and new technologies to accommodate their increasing populations and support their growing economies. The need for skills to design, build, operate and maintain infrastructure is critical yet in many infrastructure projects, these skill sets are lacking and can result in serious consequences for the safety of life, property, and environment.

In 2019 Engineering X, a collaboration between the Academy and Lloyd’s Register Foundation, launched a £5 million programme: Skills for Safety (formerly known as Engineering Skills where they are Most Needed) to support the delivery of skills and education programmes and to enable safer engineering practices for a safer world.

Our new strategy

Our research has shown that most engineering incidents and casualties occur directly on the frontline of industry, with workers experiencing daily safety challenges. To further our impact over the next two years, Skills for Safety is looking to develop sustainable collaborations with global industry partners interested in working to address and enhance skills and safety in their workforce.

Objectives

• Skills & Education: To support engineering industries and education providers to deliver skills and education programmes that enhance safety of life, property, environment and lead to safer engineering practices
• Community building and engagement: To build a coalition of safety professionals in order to identify where and how the most impactful and sustainable interventions can be made
• Advocacy: To raise awareness and advocate for increased accountability, transparency, good governance and safe engineering practices

Our work

Case studies