At the G20 Global Initiative for Safety, Health & Well-being (GISHW) in Osaka, Japan, the U.S. Department of Labor selected CompScience to represent the occupational health sector at the keynote session. Speaking to dignitaries from the largest economies in the world, we shared how AI-powered safety analytics can dramatically reduce workplace injuries and save lives at scale. We were joined on stage by Lorraine Martin, CEO of the National Safety Council, Dr. Toshihiro Fujita at The Institute of Global Safety Promotion (IGSAP), and Marie Boland, CEO of Safe Work Australia.
This was more than a technology showcase. It was a chance to share the deeply personal mission that drives our work — and to show how AI can give safety professionals around the world the tools they need to protect people everywhere.
Why This Mission Is Personal
Our CEO began with the story that inspired CompScience. Years ago, a construction site accident left his father-in-law permanently disabled. At the time, he was working in self-driving cars, developing perception algorithms to help vehicles detect and respond to hazards. The question became clear: could those same AI principles be applied to keep people safe on the job?
It turns out the answer was yes — and the vision for CompScience was born.
Thinking Big: Preventing One Million Injuries
Every year, there are 2 million workplace injuries in the United States and 360 million worldwide — roughly the equivalent of the U.S. population being injured every year.
We set our mission to prevent one million injuries in the next 10 years to push ourselves to think big. Software has an incredible property: once you build it, it costs almost nothing to give it to more people. That means the opportunity is not just to protect workers at one company or in one country, but to create a truly global solution.
Predicting and Preventing SIFs
Severe Injuries and Fatalities (SIFs) are rare but have devastating consequences. The human brain is not built to intuitively grasp low-probability, high-consequence risks, which makes preventing SIFs uniquely challenging.
The AI models we use have learned from millions of injury cases and decades of safety research. They can also process hundreds of times more environmental data than any person could. This allows safety teams to understand the most credible worst-case scenarios and the likelihood of each, leading to smarter decisions about which hazards to control.
Making Safety Professionals Superhuman
Safety professionals are our core users — and the people they protect are at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to make these professionals “superhuman” by giving them a deeper, clearer understanding of their work environments and the risks within them.
One of their biggest challenges is capturing leadership’s attention before hazards turn into injuries. With AI-powered safety analytics, they can identify risks earlier, communicate them more effectively, and drive faster action to protect workers.
Two Ways AI Prevents Injuries at Work
There are two powerful ways to use AI for safety. The first is to arm workers and supervisors with real-time tools — such as alerts that call attention to environmental issues or guidance to create a safe work plan before starting a job. These tools help people act quickly to prevent incidents in the moment.
The second, and often even more impactful, is to use AI to understand systemic risk. By analyzing large volumes of data, AI can reveal hazards that should be engineered out before work begins. In the hierarchy of controls, eliminating a hazard entirely is the most effective protection — and AI is uniquely suited to find and eliminate those risks at scale.
It Takes a Global Village
The results so far show what is possible. Our clients who have implemented our recommendations have removed hazards and reduced risk significantly. Yet we are only at the beginning. In countries like Germany and the UK, severe injuries and fatalities are up to ten times lower than in many other nations. This global gap shows just how much more we can achieve.
Closing that gap requires collaboration. We are working with governments, NGOs, nonprofits like the National Safety Council, and unions to ensure every worker can benefit from the safety AI we are building. We provide it free to all of our insurance clients, and we believe access to the science of safety should be universal. There is no reason to keep these tools locked away when they can save lives.
The Road Ahead
The conversations we started at the G20 GISHW in Osaka are only the beginning. Whether it is preventing injuries at a single facility or protecting millions of workers worldwide, our mission is clear: leverage AI to make work safer, smarter, and more human.
That last part might sound counterintuitive. But when AI takes on the heavy lift of scanning environments, analyzing hazards, and flagging risks before they cause harm, it frees people to focus on the things only humans can do — mentoring, problem-solving, and building the kind of culture where safety is second nature. In that way, technology does not replace the human element of work. It enhances it, allowing people to spend more time on high-value, meaningful activities.
Whether it is through Active Workers’ Comp Insurance or our Active Risk Management System, see how CompScience can help your organization protect its people.
