{"id":24415,"date":"2024-01-16T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/intelligent-management-of-construction-safety-an-interview-with-josh-kanner\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T12:00:47","slug":"intelligent-management-of-construction-safety-an-interview-with-josh-kanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/intelligent-management-of-construction-safety-an-interview-with-josh-kanner\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Management of Construction Safety &#8211; An Interview with Josh Kanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>How to manage construction safety risks intelligently with jobsite data? This is the topic of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"#podcast\">episode 112<\/a> of the AEC Business podcast where Aarni chats with Josh Kanner, founder and CEO of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newmetrix.com\" target=\"_blank\">Newmetrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the customers of Newmetrix had noticed, the industry had hit a plateau both in terms of the fatality rate per man-hour worked as well as the total recordable incident rate. That\u2019s what inspired Josh and his colleagues to start using job site imagery data and AI to predict and monitor safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of being limited by just the eyes and years of their safety team, they now had thousands and thousands of eyes every week gathering safety observations,\u201d Josh says.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview we discuss<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The background story of Newmetrix<\/li>\n<li>What inspired Josh and his colleagues to focus your business on construction safety<\/li>\n<li>Why construction lags behind other industries in terms of job site safety<\/li>\n<li>What is Newmetrix\u2019s solution and who are their customers<\/li>\n<li>What kind of results are possible by using the AI-powered solution<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s in the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Newmetrix<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNewmetrix significantly reduces jobsite risk and overall project cost by combining the best of human and artificial intelligence. Our platform is built on the industry\u2019s first computer vision and predictive models that were trained and built specifically for construction and safety risk. Tuned using more than 12 centuries of incident data and millions of construction images, our AI can identify indicators of risk, rank projects by risk, and predict which 20% of your projects will have 80% of your incidents in the following week. Companies using Newmetrix reduce incident rates, improve their bottom line, and can negotiate better insurance terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"podcast\">Listen to the interview (also on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and other platforms)<\/h2>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Josh-Kanner-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw(&#039;https:\/\/aec-business.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2012468-podcast&#039;);\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Josh-Kanner-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" download=\"Josh-Kanner-interview.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/intelligent-management-of-construction-safety-an-interview-with-josh-kanner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to manage construction safety risks intelligently with jobsite data? This is the topic of episode 112 of the AEC &#8230; <a title=\"Intelligent Management of Construction Safety &#8211; An Interview with Josh Kanner\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/intelligent-management-of-construction-safety-an-interview-with-josh-kanner\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Intelligent Management of Construction Safety &#8211; An Interview with Josh Kanner\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aec-business","category-all-posts","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}