Labor costs are skyrocketing, and when you factor in the expenses of injuries, the financial burden becomes even heavier. That’s why it’s essential to not only record injuries accurately but also to decide on the next steps swiftly. However, with a million tasks demanding your attention, you need to streamline the documentation process. This allows you to shift your focus to taking decisive action that prevents costly injuries from happening again.
I'm going to go over how Harvust is using AI to help our growers do this. So let's start with the foundations: recording the accident.
Getting the information from the field
We've all seen the scribbled handwritten note, in Spanish, with misspellings everywhere, from a farm manager, or maybe it is you in the field talking to your employees, and frantically jotting down everything you can translate in real-time. You might not be able to get every single detail, but the ones you get have to be accurate. That's where Harvust is employing AI translation so that a supervisor, or a farm manager, can type directly in the details of the accident in Spanish, and it'll end up on your desk (computer screen) in English (and vice versa!). And don't worry we trained our translation AI on the vocabulary of agriculture, so there won't be silly mistakes. No typos, and no wasting time typing it into Google Translate yourself.
Enriching the report with more details
OSHA has specific guidelines on how to classify an injury or illness, and they are complicated. Harvust's AI has them memorized. As you add the details of the accident, Harvust will update the report with the correct injury classification. One less thing for you to worry about. And if it meets the rules for an "OSHA recordable" case, the Harvust AI will automatically assign it a case number and add it to your OSHA 300 log.
Now that we've got the basics compliantly (and quickly!) documented, it's time to keep this from happening again:
Taking corrective actions
If Harvust just stopped at helping you document things, it'd be nothing more than a glorified spreadsheet. Instead, we're going to help you actually take action, prevent future injuries, and lower your labor costs.
You're not an industrial hygienist, and a consultant is expensive. You know you have to do something, but you don't know where to start. Enter Harvust. Our AI will analyze the details of your accident report and suggest corrective actions you can take. We trained the AI on occupational health and safety, specifically agriculture. And because it knows the crops you work with, and other information about your farm it provides practical, personalized recommendations.
We've designed it to give you two types of corrective actions: quick wins and long-term changes.
The quick wins are designed to be low-cost, low-time commitment, and implemented within the week. This reduces your immediate costs by addressing reduced employee morale (no one likes seeing their coworker get injured) and prevents the same thing from happening again, causing even more worker days to be lost. Bottom line, these quick wins keep your crew's productivity high.
The high-impact actions are more costly and time-consuming, but align with occupational health principles that are most effective at reducing long-term costs like elevated workers' comp rates and injury lawsuits.
If you feel like you're spending too much time on accident reports, only to find you don't know what to do next, reach out to us. We can show you how our entire suite of farm safety software can save you time and money.
