Big data impact for health and safety community
BIG data is being used to help improve safety at work in a project that is designed to save lives and reduce injuries globally. The Lloyd’s Registry Foundation is working with the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Thomas Ashton Institute on the Discovering Safety proj- ect. The project will make use of the huge amounts of data available globally from incident investigation findings and health and safety data to build a picture of the challenges and opportunities around workplace safety. The project team is delivering deep insights into workplace accidents using data gathered over many decades. The early insights are helping to inform a series of questions, which will be explored in more detail as the team develops new ways to aggregate and analyse health and safety data. Dr Ruth Boumphrey, Director of Research, Lloyd’s Register Foundation welcomed the initiative, saying: “Everybody deserves
to be safe at work. This programme will help us learn lessons from data and share knowledge between industries and across international borders. The more we can share, the better the insights, the safer the workers. There are huge technical chal- lenges in this programme but the rewards will be great.” Among the key aims of the project is
a particular desire to improve safety in developing countries, many of which have a poorer record on keeping people safe at work. The outcomes of the project will be widely shared along with regular updates to the industry. According to the project team, the work
“will understand how to access and use the data available and apply leading expertise in data science, data analytics, artifi- cial intelligence and machine learning. Much of the work will be underpinned by advances in areas such as text mining and language processing, which are expected to have important spin-off benefits.” Leveraging new and improved tech-
niques in data science, AI and text mining will streamline the project and highlights the way in which big data is becoming eas- ier to manipulate and extract value from. The project will have real-world impact that “will ultimately benefit both emerg- ing and mature economies by reducing fatalities and injuries caused by industrial accidents and ill health. Organisations from all parts of the world will be able to develop strategies to sustain health and safety performance and to continue to make improvements to ensure longer term benefits and impact”. Professor Andrew Curran, Chief Scien-
tific Adviser, HSE, adds: “Wouldn’t it be fantastic if people could make decisions, safe in the knowledge that, ‘No work- ers were harmed during the making of this product or service’; this innovative Discovering Safety programme will use the combined expertise of HSE and the University of Manchester (through the Thomas Ashton Institute) to move us closer to this goal.”
September 2018
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