Construction Industry AI

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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.