The Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety conducts research about how people, organisations and society prepare for, deal with and recover from events that might threaten something of value. The division also plays an important role for several educational programmes at Lund University on both bachelor, master and Phd level. International co-operation with other universities and organisations is central to the work at the division.

The division was established 1 January 2014 and was before that part of the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and System Safety.