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Record W4409804760 · doi:10.3390/pr13051312

Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing Industry Worker Safety: A New Paradigm for Hazard Prevention and Mitigation

2025· article· en· W4409804760 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueProcesses · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOccupational Health and Safety Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHazardParadigm shiftBusinessEngineeringRisk analysis (engineering)

Abstract

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The phenomenal rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade, and its evolution as a versatile addition to various fields, necessitates its usage for novel purposes in multidimensional fields like the manufacturing industry. Even though AI has been rigorously studied for process optimization, wastage reduction, and other quintessential aspects of the manufacturing industry, there has been limited focus on worker safety as a theme in the current literature. Safety standards contribute to worker safety, but there is no one-size-fits-all approach in these standards or policies, which warrants evaluation and integration of new ideas and technologies to reach the closest to ideal standards. This includes but is not limited to health, regulation of operations, predictive maintenance, and automation and control. The rise of Industry 4.0 and the migration towards Industry 5.0 facilitate easy integration of advanced technologies like AI into the manufacturing industry with real-time predictive capabilities, and this can help reduce human errors and mitigate hazards in processes where sensitivity is crucial or hazards are frequent. Keeping the future outlook in focus, AI can contribute to training workers in risk-free environments, promote engineering education for easy adaptation to new technology, and reduce resistance to changes in the industry. Furthermore, there is an urgent need for standards and regulations to govern and integrate AI technologies judiciously into the manufacturing industry, which holds AI models and their creators accountable for their decisions. This could further extend to preventing the adversarial use of new technology. This study exhaustively discusses the potential and ongoing contributions of this technology to the safety of workers in the manufacturing industry.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.858
Threshold uncertainty score0.339

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.101
GPT teacher head0.482
Teacher spread0.381 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it