{"id":163548,"date":"2023-05-08T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-manufacturers-are-using-ai-to-improve-worker-safety"},"modified":"2023-05-08T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T21:22:42","slug":"how-manufacturers-are-using-ai-to-improve-worker-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/how-manufacturers-are-using-ai-to-improve-worker-safety","title":{"rendered":"How manufacturers are using AI to improve worker safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-manufacturers-are-using-ai-to-improve-worker-safety.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AI is poised as a way to address many of the hazardous elements of manufacturing workplaces. The technology can help limit employees\u2019 exposure to loud environments, unwieldy machinery and dangerous tasks by streamlining processes and helping workers focus on less physically risky activities.<\/p>\n<p>In manufacturing, many of AI\u2019s potential benefits are concentrated in replacing the cause of the most common workplace injuries. These include \u201cmusculoskeletal disorders, mainly from overexertion in lifting and lowering, and being struck by powered industrial trucks and other materials handling equipment,\u201d according to an OSHA spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ways to reduce those points of risk, with the most dangerous manufacturing tasks standing to benefit the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is poised as a way to address many of the hazardous elements of manufacturing workplaces. The technology can help limit employees\u2019 exposure to loud environments, unwieldy machinery and dangerous tasks by streamlining processes and helping workers focus on less physically risky activities. In manufacturing, many of AI\u2019s potential benefits are concentrated in replacing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}