Despite endless efforts to minimize workplace accidents, injuries, and deaths, there were more than 2.8M work-related injury and illness cases in 2022. Workplace fatalities increased by 7.5 percent from 2021 to 5,486. Farming, fishing, and forestry had the highest fatality rates, with construction and extraction jobs a close second place. What more can we do to mitigate this trend and proactively identify and address the root causes of safety incidents, injuries, and deaths in the workplace? Can artificial intelligence in the workplace be the solution?
