For more than half a century, the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety has helped to improve the occupational safety and health of workers throughout the world. Owned and operated by Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston, MA, the Institute conducts non-proprietary, peer-reviewed research to advance scientific, business-relevant knowledge in workplace and highway safety and work-related disability.
The Institute’s four Centers conduct scientific initiatives across four domains:
What's New
The latest Scientific Update focuses on some of the Institute’s new research initiatives. Learn more about our research capacities in the areas of occupational demography, sociotechnical systems analysis, pain self-management, and work-related shoulder injuries. This issue also includes the results of the Institute’s 2011 Workplace Safety Index.
Scientific Investigation Earns Best Paper Award from Liberty Mutual Group and the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.
Research Aimed at Helping Prevent Elderly Falls, Slips, Focus of ASSE Foundation’s New Liberty Mutual Research Fellows
Featured Scientific Publications
Applied Ergonomics publishes Institute investigation on manual material handling tasks.
Safety Science presents findings of recent slips and falls research.