Search Working together for a safer world Who we are What we do A career with us News and articles Events Blogs Resources Contact us Lloyd's Register / Working together for a safer world / About us / Public benefit About us Review of 2014/15 What we do Why our independence is important Why we aim for technical excellence What makes us unique - public benefit Our structure Compliance What makes us unique - public benefit Safety has been at the heart of our work since 1760 and we invest our time, money and resources to help fulfil the organisation’s mission: to protect life and property and support public education. Our parent entity, Lloyd’s Register Foundation, is a charity. We are proud that our compliance, risk and technical consultancy services directly discharges the first of the Foundation’s charitable objectives – to enhance the safety of life and property – by helping our clients to ensure the quality construction and operation of critical infrastructure. And as the operating company, LR generates profits that help to fund the whole organisation’s public benefit activities. In the marine industry, our work includes the safety inspection of 8,500 ships each year and the development of Rules for their safe construction, maintenance and disposal. We also help the International Maritime Organization to develop conventions such as the Ballast Water Management Convention and have helped the International Labour Organization to devise the Maritime Labour Convention. We also perform design approvals, surveys and audits to verify compliance with internationally recognised safety standards. Our work in the energy sector includes verifying the safe design and operation of rigs, platforms, floating offshore installations and refineries. We also inspect boilers and pressure vessels, and other land-based installations for safety-related purposes together with developing Rules for those assets. Our Energy consultancy business deals with safety case preparation for offshore exploration and nuclear power generation. LR’s Management Systems business, LRQA, includes our medical directive and CE marking activity helping to ensure the safety of a range of consumer products and medical equipment. LRQA devotes significant effort and resources to helping other standards-setting bodies to devise new or improved standards as well as auditing and providing advice relating to the ISO 14001 environmental and OHSAS 18001 health and safety standards. Our activities include considerable investment in furthering the understanding of technology. This directly benefits public knowledge and ensures that when technology is deployed it is sound, suitable and dependable and therefore safe for society in its application. Areas of research include: advanced materials; propulsion and powering; energy production and storage; robotics; marine biotechnology; and autonomous systems. We contribute to public education by making our research publicly available, and our highly qualified experts share their knowledge and experience with academics, students, regulators and professionals through committees, conferences and publications. Our mission statement We secure, for the benefit of the community, high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance for the purpose of enhancing the safety of life and property at sea, on land and in the air… because life matters. We advance public education including within the transportation industries and any other engineering and technological disciplines. Our vision Year by year we will continuously improve in helping our clients ensure supply chains are safe, responsible and sustainable. Our values We care We share our expertise We do the right thing Related news ANAB accreditation for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 05/01/2016 New Rules released for submersibles and dive systems 18/12/2015 Katy students learn about engineering careers at the Lloyd's Register Training Center 17/11/2015 Global UKAS accreditation for ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 04/11/2015 View all news Water Matters campaign Water matters is our corporate social responsibility programme. LR's Water Matters Facebook page Print Share Contact us Terms of use Privacy policy Feedback Follow us: Lloyd's Register and variants of it are trading names of Lloyd's Register Group Limited, its subsidiaries and affiliates. Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited (Reg. no. 6193893) is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS, UK. A member of the Lloyd's Register group. © Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited. 2016.