Intenseye, the leader in AI-powered workplace safety software, has released a new AI-powered safety assistant called Chief. Generally available with free-trial options starting today, Chief equips EHS teams to further strengthen their organization’s safety posture by tackling a pervasive obstacle to their progress: the enormous amounts of time typically required to properly collect, analyze, report on, and drive actions from safety data.

“As a longtime safety professional, I know firsthand that time is not only money – it’s also what can make all the difference between a healthy worker and an injured one, a minor ailment and a severe one, and, often, even life and death,” exclaims Terry Evans, Wood Products Division Safety Manager at Boise Cascade, an Intenseye customer. “The more time we must spend on administrative obligations like audit reports or data entry, the less we have left for evaluating hazards on the floor, driving changes that reduce exposures, and building crucial trust with the frontline workers whose safety depends on us.”

Unfortunately, myriad third-party research findings reinforce that the EHS administrative burden is severe and widespread, impeding EHS teams’ efforts to protect frontline workers. Specifically:

• Fragmented safety data and systems are the EHS status quo: According to a recent survey, 70% of EHS leaders struggle with error-prone manual processes, decentralized and inconsistently integrated data, and disconnected safety management systems – all of which place an exceedingly large administrative burden​ on their teams.
• The EHS status quo correlates with higher injury costs and more lost work days: OSHA’s 2023 workplace injury and illness data indicates that companies with outdated EHS systems and processes face a 25% higher risk of incidents and thus higher costs due to medical bills, compensation, regulatory penalties, and lost productivity. Similarly, the latest ILO statistics reveal that companies that face administrative delays in hazard mitigation see up to 15% more lost workdays from workplace injuries – largely because slower responses lead to more severe incidents with prolonged recovery times.

Transforming findings like these into relics of the past is what motivated Intenseye to develop Chief, which integrates seamlessly into the company’s flagship computer vision AI-powered workplace safety platform. Unlike not only the EHS status quo but also the numerous other large language model (LLM)-based offerings that have rapidly emerged in recent memory, Chief is uniquely purpose-built to equip EHS teams to:

• Optimize EHS operations with instant answers to urgent safety questions: From revealing critical gaps in emergency response plans to pinpointing the root cause of a near-miss — Chief leverages more than 25 LLM nodes to provide near real-time answers about users’ safety data, enabling them to rapidly take action with confidence.
• Conduct weeks’ worth of safety data collection and analysis in minutes: Since Chief can analyze up to 2 million safety events per minute, it delivers actionable insights in the form of concise statements, polished reports, and even data visualizations that would otherwise take upwards of weeks’ worth of manual, error-prone work to generate.
• Unlock hidden patterns in safety data no matter its source, format, or complexity: Chief can process an unmatched breadth and depth of safety data — from incident logs, inspection records, and audit checklists, to leading indicators, unstructured text, and more. Users can also easily drag and drop any type of safety data into Chief for analysis, enabling them to spot recurring or emerging issues that might otherwise go unnoticed.
• Harness predictive insights to enhance safety posture and prevent incidents: By analyzing and delivering contextualized recommendations based on both historical safety data and current conditions, Chief further empowers EHS teams to predict and take action to prevent incidents before they occur.
• Eliminate compliance guesswork and reporting complexity: As the first LLM-based solution trained on safety regulations, Chief continuously cross-references users’ data and practices with national, regional, and industry standards to support compliance use cases. This functionality equips EHS teams to streamline audits, avoid penalties, and maintain regulatory readiness far more easily and efficiently with far lower risk.

According to Intenseye CEO Sercan Esen, “Chief is addressing a problem that every safety professional knows all too well: navigating an endless maze of paperwork and messy data while trying to keep people safe. The reality is that EHS teams are stretched thin, spending countless hours on compliance tasks and data management instead of being out on the floor, identifying hazards, and engaging with workers. With Chief, we’re not just making the process faster. We’re giving safety teams the chance to shift their focus back to where it matters and is needed most – preventing incidents before they happen and creating safer workplaces for everyone.”

Hans Rudelsberger, Global Head of EHS and Operational Sustainability at Huhtamaki, which is also an Intenseye customer, agrees: “Chief will support our journey to zero by reducing the time it takes for EHS managers to prepare the data they need. Instead of them going into the system, looking for the highest-risk exposure, and making their own conclusions, Chief does the groundwork. It provides about 80% of the work, and then the manager only has to do the last 20%. This saves time, allowing you to use the data to start making additional analyses from a different starting point, thereby enabling you to work much more efficiently and effectively.”