Many regulatory requirements require employers to develop written plans and procedures. Take, for example, OSHA Standard 1926.1153 – Respirable Crystalline Silica, which mandates employers to establish a written exposure control plan to include elements such as task descriptions, engineering controls, workplace practices, and respiratory protection.  Follow David Dunham's use of the Doc Maker GPT plug-in to to produce the OSHA documents, including housekeeping measures and necessary procedures.

AI vision is one of the most exciting advancements in artificial intelligence technology. More than other modes of AI, it’s easy to see how computer vision will enable all kinds of technologies, from automation to advances in wearable tech, like glasses. Computer vision also shows much promise in construction safety, alerting workers to hazards or tracking workplaces for emerging safety risks.

Among the many exciting new features unveiled during OpenAI’s Dev Day was the ability for users to create their own GPTs, a feature your humble correspondent has been waiting for ever since becoming familiar with generative AI. GPTs allow users to create custom Chatbots using plain English to describe what you want them to do. 

Recent updates to the paid version of the ChatGPT app have brought several valuable features to an already robust software. The app’s new features now include the ability to upload photos and files, speak to ChatGPT and hear responses in a natural voice. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to use the photos feature as an effective hazard identification and safety planning tool.

Do you find incident investigations with contributing factors like "the worker failed to identify the hazard"? The problem with such findings is that they attribute blame to the worker without digging deeper into systemic issues that may have contributed to the incident. AI can offer alternative corrective actions using the hierarchy of hazard controls.

Need to create Toolbox Talks? Generative AI speeds the content creation time. And if you have an iOS (Apple) device, you can combine a clever iOS app with a generative AI app to create a Toolbox Talk Generator that will return content for a Toolbox Talk, format it, and display or deliver it as you direct. And you can use it repeatedly to create other Talks. Follow these steps ...

Did you know you can use ChatGPT as a tutor to upgrade your proficiency with other tools? For example, you can use ChatGPT to expand your use of software such as Microsoft Excel. In this case study, see how the author used ChatGPT to create a Microsoft Excel site-safety tool for High-Energy Control Assessment.

Safety training based on real-world conditions is vital. Yet so much of the safety training that workers received is too general, leaving them ill-prepared to safely work with actual workplace tools, equipment, environment, and facilities. But by using ChatGPT and Gamma.app, you can quickly create a specific presentation.

This week's article explores how OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 can assist safety management practices with the use of plugins.  Learn how this advanced feature can help extract information from documents and generate informative visualizations from textual data."

While ChatGPT offers huge benefits, it is certainly not perfect.  Steven A. Schwartz, a Manhattan lawyer who had ChatGPT create a legal brief, learned the challenges that using ChatGPT can create the hard way.  Schwartz, a lawyer with 30 years of experience, was beyond embarrassed when a judge grilled him for blindly relying upon ChatGPT for legal expertise. There are obvious lessons for the construction safety professional or busy business owner to be derived from Schwartz’s unfortunate story. 

Perhaps ChatGPT isn’t lawyer caliber yet, but it fairs well in creating many of the documents safety professionals use every day.

This article provides ways ChatGPT can help with other documents, from inspection checklists, procedures and templates to safety tests, quizzes and more.