Safety
A goal of any safety program is straightforward: to ensure that every worker (or guest/customer, for that matter) goes home in the same condition they arrived—safe, healthy, and unharmed. But beyond protecting individuals, effective safety practices deliver a range of…
We issued this press release today, May 13, 2025. CARY, NC, May 13, 2025: First Analytics, a leader in applying advanced analytic and AI solutions is pleased to announce a new company: Sentient Safety. Sentient Safety is focused on helping…
Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) professionals continually strive to create workplaces that are not just compliant but fundamentally safe. Most are familiar with the so-called Heinrich/Byrd Safety Pyramid, commonly referred to as the “Safety Triangle". But in this post we…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have historically struggled with numerical data, primarily because they are, at their core, language models. But OpenAI has aspirations to move into the business intelligence and analytics spaces. One way is through the Advanced Data Analysis…
It is said that the Community of Human and Organizational Learning Conference (CHOLearning) is the "greatest conference for humans by humans!" First Analytics has the privilege of presenting both in a breakout session and participating in…
You won't want to miss a compelling demonstration of a predictive safety application, to be presented at the upcoming Utility Analytics Week in San Diego on October 19th. SoCalGas will present a coaching tool, based on machine learning, to support…
We will be presenting at the 2022 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 28th Annual Conference. Our session is entitled, “Predictive Analytics for Safety.” The conference will be held June 14-16, 2022 at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, CO…
After three decades of steady decreases, the rate of highway/rail accidents bottomed out in 2012. But it has been trending upward ever since. The graph shows that in 2012 the incident rate reached its all-time low of 2.72 incidents per…
Join us for a webinar sponsored by the Community of Human and Organizational Learning. The topic is Add Predictive Analytics to Your Safety Management System. It will occur on Thursday, February 24, 2022, from 10:30 ET to 12:00ET. Here is…
We previously wrote about Goodhart's law and how it poses a challenge to analytics over a period of time in the sense that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." But that is not…