Colleagues in Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF) and Lloyds Register Group (LRG) have undertaken a review of the worldwide confined spaces picture following the global safety challenges work which identified this as a key challenge around the world. Lloyds Register (LR) colleagues have undertaken a structured desk based review which involved searching literature and engaging with subject matter experts. This work was valuable but LR colleagues would like to augment this with a more data driven analysis to determine where confined spaces hazards present the greatest challenges.
An appreciation of the adequacy of risk control in different sectors and root causation would better enable industry to target improvements and reduce harm globally.