The reality of workplace safety: too many lives are still at risk
Every year, nearly 3 million people lose their lives due to workplace accidents, while over 374 million suffer non-fatal injuries. These are more than just statistics — they represent real people, real lives, and real families impacted by safety incidents that could often have been prevented. Despite advances in safety technologies, industrial workplaces still face a major challenge: traditional safety methods aren’t doing enough to reduce accidents and fatalities as expected. Despite ongoing efforts, safety improvements across industries have reached a plateau.
Safety teams are overwhelmed by disorganized data
The main issue we’ve encountered after 5 years of working closely with safety leaders isn’t a lack of data — it’s actually the overwhelming amount of it. EHS leaders are dealing with a flood of disjointed information. They are overloaded with spreadsheets, PDFs, emails, and manual logs from various sites around the world. Collecting this data takes too long. Gathering leading safety indicators is hard.
On average, safety teams spend three weeks preparing for quarterly reviews. Over 50% of organizations struggle to collect the right data for effective safety programs. These delays slow decisions and stop teams from being proactive.
Meet Chief: change how your safety data is managed
After listening to operations and site leaders, understanding their frustrations, and learning about their day-to-day struggles, the feedback we received was consistent: They need real-time insights that help them make quick, informed decisions to prevent accidents before they happen.
One of my favorite quotes describing why real-time insights are crucial comes from our valued customer, Terry Evans, the Wood Products Division Safety Manager at Boise Cascade:
“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, life and death. The more time we spend on administrative obligations like audit reports or data entry, the less we have left for detecting hazards on the floor, driving changes that reduce exposures, and building crucial trust with the workers whose safety depends on us.”
He’s 100% right — time means the difference between life and death in health and safety management. The less time spent on paperwork, the more time can be spent on making sure workers go home safely at the end of the day.
That’s where Intenseye Chief comes in. Chief — our safetyGPT platform, designed to completely transform how safety data is managed and analyzed. By seamlessly integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources in real time, Chief cuts down weeks of work to just a few hours, enabling safety leaders to act quickly and effectively.
By bridging the gap between how work is planned and how it actually unfolds, Chief equips safety teams with the real-time insights they need to stay ahead of potential EHS incidents.
Chief is built for real-world challenges
Chief is designed to simplify how safety teams interact with their data by providing real-time, actionable insights through a conversational interface. Safety leaders can ask specific questions, generate reports, and receive trends directly from the data collected at their facilities instantly.
With the ability to ask customized questions, safety leaders can quickly understand where improvements are happening and where more focus is needed. This capability allows you to 'chat' with your data, pulling insights from every corner of your organization into one unified dashboard.
One of Chief’s standout features is its ability to generate comprehensive reports that include not just visual insights but also specific recommendations for improvement. Teams can save these threads, bookmark key insights, and share them across facilities or departments, fostering collaboration and ensuring that safety strategies are aligned company-wide.
The platform also allows for file uploads, such as procedures or safety audits, so leaders can prompt against this information to address issues that matter most to them. From daily team meetings to long-term safety programs, Chief provides a flexible and powerful tool to keep safety efforts on track.
Reflecting on this, I recall a recent conversation with Hans Rudelsberger, Huhtamaki’s Global Head of EHS, Quality & Sustainability, who captured the true impact of Chief on their safety approach. Hans noted,
“Chief will support our journey to zero by reducing the time it takes for EHS managers to prepare and analyze data. Currently, they have to do much of the groundwork themselves — identifying the highest risk exposures and drawing their own conclusions. Hans says that, “With Chief, this foundational work is done for them, covering a solid 80%, leaving them to handle the remaining 20%.”
With Chief, EHS managers at Huhtamaki, and other organizations like it, gain more than just time; they gain a more advanced starting point for their analysis. Instead of beginning from scratch, safety teams can rely on Chief to streamline the groundwork, allowing them to focus on implementing proactive safety measures and addressing high-priority risks immediately.
Get ahead to the new era of workplace safety management
Chief is now live; safety professionals, operations executives, plant managers, and frontline teams can sign up and start using it. Let Chief streamline safety compliance, unlock real-time insights, and transform how you manage safety.
Request your free trial to see Chief in action.
Stay safe,