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Our work
Active Projects
01/04/21
Leading Indicators
We’re working with the University of Manchester and the construction industry to provide the evidence base for using ‘leading indicators’ in preventing...01/04/21
Loss of containment insights project
We are working with the processing industry to help develop tools that will help us find the factors that lead to Loss...01/04/21
Innovations – Predicting risk project
We’ve been working with partners in construction and artificial intelligence to look at whether using analytic tools could help us to predict...25/06/19
Automatic data anonymisation
We’ve been working with Ohalo, a leading company in the field of data governance, to provide an automatic tool for anonymising safety...Completed projects
27/10/20
Product safety intelligence project
Mass manufactured products are used by both consumers (public) and industrial users for work activities. Latent defects introduced at the design or...25/06/19
Web scraping health and safety intelligence project
Of the vast amount of information on the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer numerous questions of a...20/06/19
Industry 4.0 implications for health and safety project
‘Industry 4.0’, the name given to the emerging use of a suite of technologies across many industry sectors, is revolutionising industrial operations...20/06/19
Confined spaces project
Confined spaces continue to cause significant harm around the world and confined space deaths continue to occur in the UK. Colleagues in...20/06/19
International insights in the cement industry project
This study aims to explore the possibility of sharing existing knowledge with regards to creating an industrial database for these prevalent hazards within...19/06/19
Health and safety programme benchmarking project
Organisations generate a wealth of routine health and safety data as part of day-to-day operations that provide a useful proxy measure of...19/06/19
Construction risk knowledge management using BIM project
Building Information Modelling (BIM) supports the digitisation of asset build projects and uses information relating to the asset of interest to build a...
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19/06/19
Leading indicators of health and safety failures project
Much industry guidance has been published over recent years, specific to different industry contexts, on how to better use leading indicators of...19/06/19
Development of capacities to extract health and safety insights from free-text sources project
As recent developments in text mining, natural language processing and machine learning are becoming more mainstream, the task of generating data driven...Suggest a project
To express an interest in contributing to the initial proof of concept work or for further details on the Discovering Safety Programme more generally, please contact the project team at the following email address: discoveringsafety@hse.gov.uk