Industry safety with Artificial Intelligence

We all want our work to take place in a safe, engaging environment. Workplace safety and technology are completely tangled.

Human factors play a huge role in workplace safety, with exhaustion and stress can contribute to accidents.

Are there any challenges that organizations may face while implementing AI and robotics from a workplace safety perspective?

The AI technology with vision-based cameras and factories bring benefits in terms of cost reduction and improved efficiency, but there’s lots of potential for these technologies to improve workplace safety as well. 

Robotics, AI, and the Internet of Things can reduce building costs by up to 20 percent. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big part of our lives. AI has increasingly grown so much in the past years.

Why do you need AI for safety?

Despite its clear benefits to workplace safety, AI is still a developing piece of high tech.

The importance of early detection and investigation in preventing cluster outbreaks can’t be understated, and that’s why technology that requires strict compliance plays an important role.

As the country begins to reopen from the COVID-19 lockdown, many people are heading back to work. 

Why a safety system for industries?

Let's have a look at why and what types of accidents happen in industries so that it will clear the need for such technology.

• Slips:

One of the main reasons is slips at sites, as there are many types of equipment,  holes, uneven ground. Many risks on a construction site could lead to a dangerous slip, trip, or fall.

• Falls:

On construction sites, it is often required to work at a high height on ladders and scaffolding, on roofs so there are many chances of fall.

This is the leading cause of construction site worker’s death each year, which should be work on. 

The main cause of death in construction occurs, where poor or no fall protection is provided.

• Electrocutions: 

One of the top four leading causes of workplace accidents is electrocution.

Electrocution is when a person, tool, or piece of equipment comes in contact with power lines or opened electrical sources.

Sometimes, these types of accidents happen because workers are oblivious of all energized power sources, from overhead and underground power lines to damaged receptacles and connectors. 

• Struck by an Object:

A number of these deaths may have been prevented if the workers had known proper training and used equipment and machinery properly. 

To prevent such types of accidents, workers should use safety equipment (e.g. face masks, hard hats, eyewear) not only for particular tasks but the whole time when they are working.

And most importantly, make sure you remain visible on the construction site so that machine operators and other workers know you’re there.

Now here is the main thing, How AI is helping to prevent such accidents:

• AI analyzes more data than humans could ever review:

Artificial Intelligence never tires, whereas Humans can not lookout for more data as they get tired. 

AI platforms can review tens of thousands of images and project data daily and identify risk factors that would never have been found otherwise. AI-supported cameras provide real-time footage while also gathering and analyzing all inbound data concerning the job site.

It will give an alert before anything bad happens with vision-based AI software.

• Automating Safety Audits: 

For one or two persons to check everything at construction sites is a tedious task. There are so many hazards at construction sites almost daily.

Artificial Intelligence is helping to improve safety on construction sites with vision-based cameras, sensors, IoT devices, and an alert system that detects every moment of operations going on every minute automatically.

• Efficiency in repetitive tasks:

As we all know, AI can learn and adapt tasks easily, so the repetitive pieces of work at construction sites are tailor-made to be replaced by AI-based tools.

They can perform repetitive tasks more efficiently than their human counterparts, such as pouring concrete, bricklaying, welding, and demolition. This gives human workers more time for the construction work and reduces the overall time required to complete the project.

Sometimes operators at construction sites work with multiple tasks at the same time and it causes efficiency losses and errors. AI can also assist operators of heavy and mobile machinery at the construction sites so the operator can focus on value-adding and important tasks.

• Automatic Transportation:

Artificial intelligence discovers the best means of transportation and also the best routes based on information on times and dates, traffic, addresses, revenue, speed, etc.

• AI for Post Construction:

Building managers can use Artificial Intelligence long after the construction of a building is complete. Building information modeling, or BIM, stores information about the structure of the building. AI can be used to monitor developing problems and even offers solutions to prevent problems.

In the nearby future, the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technology will be the rule in the industry rather than the exception.

Of course, AI is not going to replace the human workforce. Alternatively, it will change business models, reduce expensive errors, worksite injuries in the construction industry, and make operations more productive and safe.