Urbint and National Grid Work Towards Preventing Serious Injuries or Fatalities to Utility Workers in the Field
Urbint and National Grid have teamed up to enhance worker safety using AI technology. The Urbint Lens for Worker Safety will be deployed across National Grid's U.S. service areas to identify potential hazards, aiming to reduce serious injuries and fatalities in the field. Recent data shows serious worker injuries have not decreased significantly in 14 years, highlighting the urgency of this collaboration. The AI-driven solution analyzes worksite data to provide actionable safety insights, helping utilities protect their essential workers effectively.
- Collaboration enhances worker safety using AI technology.
- Urbint Lens for Worker Safety aims to reduce serious injuries and fatalities.
- AI analyzes worksite data for actionable safety insights.
- Addresses long-standing issue of stagnant worker injury rates.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Urbint, the AI platform to prevent worker accidents and identify threats to infrastructure, and National Grid, one of the largest energy companies in the world, today announced a new collaboration to protect workers across National Grid's U.S. service territory. National Grid will deploy Urbint Lens for Worker Safety, a new artificial intelligence technology that identifies potential hazards to workers in the field, so supervisors can intervene to prevent serious injuries or fatalities (SIF).
"We have thousands of people performing critical infrastructure work in the field for our communities, and nothing is more important to us than sending them safely home at the end of every day," said Rudolph Wynter, President of National Grid New York. "Using AI to protect workers is a game-changer for us, and we are very excited to work with Urbint and to leverage Urbint Lens for Worker Safety to continuously improve field work safety during construction operations."
Across the industry, serious worker injuries and fatalities have not been meaningfully reduced in the last 14 years.1 And now, with mounting challenges including extreme weather, aging infrastructure, a changing workforce, increased construction activity, and the pandemic, field risk is at an all-time high. Urbint's technology seeks to give utilities and other infrastructure operators clear risk insights in advance so they can take action.
"Field work can be dangerous, and unfortunately research shows that even the most experienced workers can only spot
Urbint Lens for Worker Safety uses AI to identify worksite hazards before they threaten lives. The software enables field operators to identify high-risk tasks and take specific actions to prevent serious injuries and fatalities. The solution connects data on worksites, schedules, historical incidents, and environmental conditions, and identifies leading indicators of hazards to deliver a clear and actionable picture of safety risk across job sites.
"We're always looking for cutting-edge ways to keep our communities and workers safe with technology," said Lisa Lambert, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at National Grid and Founder and President of National Grid Partners, the utility's venture capital arm, which is an investor in Urbint. "Running safety programs and performing smart, timely interventions across hundreds of worksites and thousands of workers is a monumental task for any utility. Urbint's AI will give us a clearer picture of risk so we can be as targeted as possible in protecting our teams."
This latest news deepens the relationship between Urbint and National Grid, building on the utility's success using Urbint's AI-powered damage prevention technology to protect underground energy infrastructure from being struck by third party excavators.
Capasso added, "We want utility workers and contractors to go home to their families in the same condition that they left that morning. Utility workers are essential workers who literally power our society. We're proud to work with National Grid to keep them safe."
Learn more about Urbint Lens for Worker Safety.
About Urbint
Urbint is a field risk mitigation platform that predicts and prevents threats to critical infrastructure and the workers who maintain it to make communities safer and more resilient. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), Urbint pinpoints risk in the construction, servicing, replacement, and protection of infrastructure. Major utilities and asset operators throughout North America rely on Urbint to make risk-driven safety decisions to protect workers, infrastructure, the community, and the environment.
Urbint customers include National Grid, Southern Company, Con Edison, Exelon, Dominion, NiSource, and Xcel Energy, among others. To learn more, visit urbint.com.
About National Grid
National Grid (NYSE: NGG) is an electricity, natural gas, and clean energy delivery company serving more than 20 million people through our networks in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. National Grid is transforming our electricity and natural gas networks with smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy solutions to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
1 | Hallowell, M.R. "Safety Classification and Learning (SCL) Model" Edison Electric Institute, Washington D.C., 2020. |
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