Artificial intelligence (AI) workplace safety

As per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, one worker died every 99 minutes from a work-related injury in 2019. Businesses need to look at a proactive way of identifying a workplace hazard and prevent such issues from happening. This is where the HGS AI workplace safety solution comes into play. HGS AI workplace safety solution leverages AI so that the workplace hazards can be proactively identified. The concerned authorities can then be alerted to take immediate action so that workplace incidents can be averted. Few examples of potential hazards can include any of the following

1. Any form of spills - Water, oil etc.
2. Not wearing mandatory Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at workplace
3. Empty pallets or other items that may cause a fall or a trip
4. Violating a No-Go area or a lockout zone
5. Crowding and violating COVID protocols
6. Fog and fire detection

HGS AI workplace solution covers the technology, people and process and have the following components

1. Use existing IP based video cameras at the facility and leverage AI to reduce unsafe acts
2. Leverage analytics to get contextual videos of a workplace incident for training and quality purposes
3. Proactively trigger action via alerts to supervisors or to responsible parties when a hazard is identified
4. Establish a risk monitoring framework and governance mechanism to encourage behavioral changes at the facilities
5. Conduct ongoing training to facility workers using contextual videos of past incidents
6. Leverage leading indicators to track the efficiency of the deployed application (Examples of leading indicators are the following - number of unsafe acts, behavioral observations, training courses attended and pass rates, number of preventive maintenance programs etc.)
7. Easy interface to report workplace stats to federal authorities (OSHA and other)
8. Provide the ROI for implementing the solution