Each year, nearly 3 million people lose their lives due to workplace accidents, and over 374 million more suffer non-fatal injuries that lead to extended time off work.
These numbers don’t just stand as cold figures on a page – they reflect real lives and real people, each with families and communities hoping they make it home safely. This alone is more than enough to prove why businesses need to transform their approach to workplace safety.
Growing up in Australia, my father was a plant GM of a large manufacturing facility. I saw firsthand the immense responsibility leaders in this field carry. He always stressed that his most important job wasn't meeting production targets or managing costs—it was ensuring every worker went home safely. Manufacturing leaders aren’t just overseeing operations; they’re responsible for creating a safety culture where wellbeing is a core value that drives every decision.
Adopting safety AI software across the entire organization won't just help you achieve much safer facilities, it will also reduce your EHS-related costs. It’s not about adding another tool to your tech stack but about integrating AI that can help you mitigate risks before they become safety incidents.
But the question remains: how does AI translate into safer facilities and reduced costs for EHS teams? While measuring cost-saving in safety has long been seen as an uphill battle, there are clear statistics that highlight the value AI brings.
1. Poor EHS practices cost you 30% more (HSI)
The 2024 Global EHS Readiness Report paints a clear picture: companies with less integrated EHS systems spend up to 30% more on incident-related costs than those with more developed ones. These costs go beyond just medical bills or fines.
They include things like damage to your company’s reputation, lost productivity, and higher employee turnover—impacts that can be harder to quantify but just as costly.
Fragmented information across multiple systems and manual processes complicates EHS management, leading to inefficiencies and potential errors.
Many organizations either use separate, disjointed systems for hazard detection and safety management or rely on outdated, manual processes that are prone to errors and inefficiencies. This fragmented approach often leads to delayed responses to hazards and a reactive rather than proactive safety culture.
This is where AI-powered EHS management software can make a big difference. Intenseye’s EHS Suite centralizes incident reporting, task management, inspections, audits, and template creation within a single platform, streamlining communication, ensuring data integrity, and providing a holistic view of all EHS operations.
Plus, Intenseye Chief simplifies and accelerates the process of compiling and analyzing data from diverse sources via its advanced AI capabilities, enabling instant data analysis and integration from multiple formats and sources, effectively reducing response times and increasing accuracy.
2. 75 million workdays lost due to work-related injuries (NSC)
In 2022 alone, 75 million workdays were lost due to injuries. That number should be enough to make you rethink your current approach to safety management.
The impact of lost workdays extends far beyond one employee's absence. When a key team member is out, it creates a domino effect, slowing down the entire operation. These indirect costs — often difficult to quantify — can quickly surpass the direct expenses of the injury itself, leading to significant financial strain.
By adopting Intenseye's AI, Swire Coca-Cola significantly enhanced their real-time risk identification and mitigation capabilities, leading to a 60% reduction in safety hazards in 2022 alone.
Alongside this improvement, they saw a 27% decrease in Lost Day Rates (LDR), modernizing their safety management and making their operations far more efficient.
3. OSHA penalties increased to $16,000 per violation (OSHA)
With OSHA increasing its maximum penalties for serious violations to $16,131 per violation starting January 16, 2024, and boosting fines for willful or repeated violations to $161,323 per violation, the importance of workplace safety has never been more pressing.
These regulatory changes make it clear that businesses must rethink how they manage safety. Intenseye’s AI offers an effective solution by providing real-time leading indicators data that allows you to act swiftly and accurately.
By identifying unsafe acts and conditions as they occur, our AI-powered EHS management software equips decision-makers with the insights needed to prioritize actions and allocate resources efficiently.
This proactive approach helps teams not only to address risks before they escalate but also to reduce human error, streamline reporting, and ensure compliance with OSHA standards.
Beyond compliance, the true value of AI lies in giving safety and operations teams the tools they need to make EHS an integral part of day-to-day operations, driving long-term improvements that go beyond avoiding fines and focus on truly protecting your workforce.
4. Advanced EHS systems cut workplace injury costs by 50% (EY)
A study referenced in the 2024 Global EHS Readiness Report shows that organizations with advanced EHS systems like this witnessed a 50% reduction in the costs associated with workplace injuries and illnesses.
One of our customers in the railroad equipment manufacturing industry decided to invest in Intenseye after calculating the cost of adopting AI and the estimated total cost of injuries. The numbers painted a clear picture: the average cost of just one crushing injury in the workplace is a jaw-dropping $1,700,000.
Now imagine investing in AI to make your workplaces safer and healthier. Preventing just one such incident with Intenseye's real-time leading safety indicators and AI-generated data could save over 97% in potential costs.
Companies that embrace this Safety AI adoption can not only meet safety program requirements but also unlock a substantial drop in EHS costs through reduced injuries, lower compensation costs, and improved worker well-being.
Wrapping up
These numbers make one thing clear: investing in AI-powered EHS software like Intenseye isn’t just about keeping pace with digital transformation — it’s about transforming your entire approach to safety and performance.
What truly sets Intenseye apart is its ability to grow with your business. From the plant floor to the boardroom, its scalable platform adapts seamlessly, giving you the tools to optimize safety management at every level of your organization.
Whether you're a small startup or a global enterprise, Intenseye delivers real-time insights that empower you to stay ahead of health and safety risks, while driving productivity across the board. In short, investing in Intenseye isn’t just a safety upgrade — it’s a strategic move toward a more resilient, efficient, and future-ready operation. Start reducing your EHS costs today!
