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NIOSH Competition Looks for the Best AI Safety Solutions - EHS Daily Advisor

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announced a competition for programmers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capable of analyzing safety reports and assigning occupational safety and health classification codes. Submissions are due by November 21. When a worker is injured or becomes ill on the job, a person records free-form narrative text explaining how the injury or illness occurred. Currently, human evaluators read the reports and assign codes classifying injuries and illnesses. Reports can contain large amounts of information, and assigning codes is a costly and time-consuming task subject to human error.