AI for Industrial Safety

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly making its way into all areas of corporate life, including the field of safety. Its development is generating high expectations, concerns, and questions regarding its deployment, governance, and organizational impact.

This document presents an overview of the opportunities and concerns associated with AI deployment through a graphical representation of six application domains, depicted as the petals of a flower:

• anticipating risk ;
• distancing operators from the most hazardous situations ;
• protecting exposed operators ;
• enhacing human knowledge and decision-making ;
• automating the monitoring and maintenance of technical systems ;
• and, finally, enriching experience feedback.