The Lloyd's Register Group
Life Matters
Lives and livelihoods depend on quality systems you will probably never see, ships, roads and railtracks on which you may never travel and distant production plants about which you have never heard.
The Lloyd's Register Group is an organisation that works to enhance safety and to approve assets and systems at sea, on land and in the air. We check that assets and systems work so that people and communities around the world can get on with everyday life. We are driven by a strong sense that what we are doing matters.
To make this happen, we set, uphold and apply high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance across many industries to the benefit
of many businesses. Our expertise covers shipping, transportation (particularly rail), oil and gas, general industry and manufacturing, and management systems. We work together with our clients to deliver real value.
Lloyd's Register stands apart: independent, objective, experienced and uncompromising in our commitment to help our clients.
To be independent, an organisation must ultimately be free to make its own decisions, despite the inevitable commercial and government pressures - we are and we do.
We have no institutional or private shareholders seeking profits. Our ability to invest considerable resources in people and technology has assured our strength and allowed our close involvement in developments to assist our clients and, in turn, their customers, for nearly two and a half centuries.
People trust us to deliver impartial, technically correct judgement.
…and we started with a cup of coffee
We owe our name to Edward Lloyd's 17th century London coffee house. Some other organisations also started there, like the entirely separate Lloyd's of London international insurance market.
In 1760 our organisation was founded to survey merchant ships and 'classify' them according to their condition, and classification is still our principal activity in the marine sector. In the 1900s we began to apply our expertise to other industry sectors resulting in today's wide ranging services. Our aim is to be the independent third party of choice helping to make the world a safer and more secure place. Because life matters.
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