Construction Industry AI

A New Era in Construction Safety: How ChatGPT's Photo Feature is Changing the Game

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.

Beyond Blame: Using AI to Dive Deeper into Incident Causes

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.

Simplify Creation of Toolbox Talks: A Step-by-Step Guide

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 ...

ChatGPT as Your Personal Tutor: A Case Study

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.

How to Create Effective Safety Training with ChatGPT and Gamma.app

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.

Leveraging ChatGPT Plug-ins for Construction Safety

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."

Treading Carefully: The Dangers of Blinding Trust in AI in Safety Management

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.

The Intersection of AI and Construction Safety: Improved Management and Safer Jobs

It shouldn’t surprise us that AI chatbots could bring value to safety. Safety professionals and employers must demonstrate their safety efforts through procedures, risk assessments, investigations, inspection records and other safety documents. A common refrain within the profession is, "If it wasn’t written, it didn’t happen." Writing can be problematic because it takes time, and writing well takes even longer. Time-strapped supervisors and safety professionals often struggle to keep up with the administrative demands of their roles. In today's article, safety engineer David Dunham explains the various ways he expects ChatGPT/AI will result in improved safety management and safer jobs.

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