AI and QHSE: understanding what it does... and what it doesn't do
Artificial intelligence, as we developed it at Symalean, is QHSE AI. Based on business data, it is designed to help, accelerate, and pre-analyze. But it is no substitute for human expertise. In addition, with Sym Ai, our customers always have the opportunity to check and correct what our artificial intelligence suggests. In fact, our customers have the final say on AI and its suggestions.
What AI does very well in your management systems
Artificial intelligence, integrated into your management systems, can:
- Identify non-conformities,
- Generate an action plan adapted to an SSE event,
- Summarize an incident in a clear and structured manner,
- Produce a first version of a detailed report.
What AI doesn't do
- Make final decisions for you
- Arbitrate between two prevention scenarios,
- Facilitate a crisis meeting or convince a CODIR,
- Making sense of raw data without business context.
And that's what we explain to our customers: AI assists, but does not replace.
AI and the transformation of QHSE jobs: what evolutions should we anticipate?
Like every technological advance, tools evolve, jobs adapt. And this has been the case for a few years now.
Advanced technology has always been transforming the way we work
Change, regardless of its nature, raises a lot of questions, sometimes worries, but it transforms and reinvents the way we work.
In the 1990s, it was the arrival of Excel that caused trouble. Some then feared the disappearance of key skills in manual calculation, or even the questioning of certain positions. However, this spreadsheet has made it possible to simplify and automate long and tedious calculations, thus freeing up valuable time to process more files, make analyses more reliable and refocus professionals on tasks with higher added value.
In the same way, the arrival of the first QHSE software marked the end of paper filing cabinets, manual monitoring of action plans and fragmented document management. This transition has brought rigor, traceability and efficiency on a daily basis.
And more recently, the health crisis and COVID have further shown us that we can change the way we work provided we adopt change management and demonstrate agility and resilience.
Today, AI is part of this continuity: no not to replace QHSE professionals, but to give them new levers. Automating the generation of reports, summarizing HSE events, suggesting action plans... so many uses that allow you to focus on strategy, decision and team support.
👉 Discover how this is translated concretely in our tools with SYM Ai in this article: Artificial intelligence in QHSE: myth or revolution in progress?
Sym Ai: an ethical and secure approach
At Symalean, we have a strong belief, a leitmotif : technology must remain at the service of humans.
That is why we have formalized a ethical charter specific to our AI that frames this approach. Here are some of the foundations of our vision:
Human/machine complementarity
Our artificial intelligence never makes decisions for our customers. It provides them with analyses, suggests actions, but our customers remain the pilots.
Sovereignty and security
We promote the use of models French or European ISO 27001 certified, health data hosts (HDS) in order to ensure optimal data security. The data is anonymized, in accordance with the GDPR.
Transparency and traceability
Each intervention of our assistant Sym Ai is understandable and justifiable. Each proposal made by Sym Ai can be reviewed, corrected or refused by the user via a dedicated control interface.
Digital sobriety
We are committed to Green IT, to limit our environmental footprint.
👉 To go further in detail and discover even more about what guides our daily approach, we invite you to read our ethical charter, accessible by everyone on our website by clicking here.
A new QHSE assistant, not a replacement
Artificial intelligence, and our Sym Ai, is a new invisible assistant, an intelligent assistant, which allows us to go further, more quickly. For example, in our Dyo solution, for the analysis of an SSE event, Sym Ai analyzes the data and offers a summary and action plans to be deployed.
However, it is always the QHSE team that decides and validates the measures to be taken. Sym Ai and artificial intelligence more generally does not replace professionals: it supports them, makes them more efficient.
The transformation is ongoing, but it is positive, gradual, and controlled. Like the major changes that we were able to trace in this article, such as the arrival of Excel or QHSE software.
Chez Symalean, we are building a Useful, responsible and ethical AI. Do you want to talk to us about it? Book a 30-minute chat with our team.
