about lloyd\'s register group
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ABOUT L LOYD ’S REG I STER
LIFE MATTERSLives and livelihoods depend
on quality systems you will
probably never see, ships,
roads and rail tracks on which
you may never travel and
distant production plants about
which you’ve 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.
Lloyd’s Register stands apart:
independent, objective, experienced and
uncompromising in our commitment to
helping our clients.
Business solutions worldwide The Lloyd’s Register Group is a globalindependent risk management and safetyassurance organisation. Members of the Group provide services designed to help clientsaround the world to achieve their business goals, while optimising safety and quality, and protecting, even improving, theenvironment. The Group is made up of charitiesand also non-charitable companies whichsupport the charities in achieving their publicbenefit goals.
Our expertise covers shipping, transportation(particularly rail), oil and gas, general industryand manufacturing, and management systems.
We work together with our clients to inject real value, delivering bold new solutions in the harshest conditions, facing the toughestproblems. And we combine our global reachwith deep local knowledge - you’ll find ourteams at work all over the world.
Independent Our independence is critical to our clients. To be independent, an organisation mustultimately 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 shareholdersseeking profits. Our ability to invest considerableresources in people and technology has assuredour strength and allowed our close involvementin developments to assist our clients and, inturn, their customers, for nearly two and a halfcenturies. People trust us to deliver impartial,technically correct judgement.
Professional We have built our reputation and ability to changeupon the professional excellence of our people.
Our work is often unseen, but it is key. We have always taken great pride in leadingthe drive for progress - upholding high technicalstandards of design, manufacture, construction,maintenance, operation and performance acrossmany industries.
Our work has built a reputation. We participatein technical meetings of the InternationalAssociation of Classification Societies (IACS), we contribute to the development of codes for bodies such as the International MaritimeOrganization (IMO), we help to form and review ISO (International Organisation forStandardisation) standards, and we help develop legislation and rules around the world.We function as a ‘notified body’ for manyEuropean Community directives, helping ensureessential product safety rules work properly. We initiate new standards for safety and qualityas the boundaries of knowledge expand.
Our key areas of business Our marine business principally involvesclassification of ships, which sets standards of quality and reliability during their design,construction and operation. As well as carrying out statutory inspections for nationaladministrations, required by internationalshipping conventions and codes, we also helpship owners and operators understand risks and improve business performance.
And for a century, our expertise has extendedfurther. The Lloyd’s Register Group also providesindependent risk management solutions thatoptimise asset performance in oil and gas, rail,utilities, general engineering and manufacturing.
Our expertise in business assurance andmanagement systems is also world class. LRQA is the world’s leading international supplier ofbusiness assurance. Our aim is to help clients use management systems to reduce risk andimprove their business performance, as well as providing certification of compliance withinternational management system standards.
Many companies in these areas recognise thebenefits of working with the Lloyd’s RegisterGroup and trust us to help them improve safety, quality and business performance. So, many of the everyday things you rely on will have benefited from our help.
And we started with a cup of coffee We owe our name to Edward Lloyd’s 17thcentury London coffee house. Some otherorganisations also started there, like the entirelyseparate Lloyd’s of London internationalinsurance market. Edward Lloyd helped his shipping industry clientele to exchangeinformation by printing a sheet of all the newshe heard. In 1760, the Register Society wasformed by the coffee house customers and itprinted the first Register of Ships in 1764 to give under-writers and merchants an idea of the condition of the vessels they insured andchartered.
In 1834, the organisation was reconstituted asLloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shippingand the first classification Rules were published.In 1852, the organisation opened its firstoverseas office, in Canada, and other officesfollowed around the world.
In the 1900s we began to apply our expertisedeveloped in the marine industry to otherindustrial sectors resulting in today's wideranging services. Our aim is to be theindependent third party of choice helping tomake the world a safer and more secure place.Because life matters.
Lloyd’s Register EMEA
T +44 (0)20 7709 9166F +44 (0)20 7488 4796E [email protected]
71 Fenchurch Street, LondonEC3M 4BS, UK
Lloyd’s Register Asia
T +852 2287 9333F +852 2526 2921E [email protected]
Suite 3501 China Merchants TowerShun Tak Centre168-200 Connaught Road CentralHong Kong, SAR of PR China
Lloyd’s Register Americas, Inc.
T +1 (1)281 675 3100F +1 (1)281 675 3139E [email protected]
1401 Enclave Parkway, Suite 200Houston, Texas 77077, USA
www.lr.org
March 2007
Services are provided by membersof the Lloyd’s Register Group.
Lloyd’s Register, Lloyd’s RegisterEMEA and Lloyd’s Register Asia areexempt charities under the UKCharities Act 1993.