Ence’s North Forest Area has been recognized this morning with the Zaldívar Scholastic Award 2804 for prevention, safety and health at work, thanks to the successful development, and subsequent application, of artificial intelligence to preventive practices. This distinction represents an endorsement of Ence’s commitment to the health and safety of people, as well as the company’s commitment to advance in the use and application of new technologies to optimize the management and execution of all its processes.
The “Escolástico Zaldívar” recognition, promoted by Fraternidad-Muprespa, recognizes the associated companies highly committed to the Prevention of Occupational Risks, and which demonstrate that they are executing actions that represent an improvement in the safety, health and well-being of their workers. Ence’s project has been selected in the category “We feel prevention”, thus highlighting the practices that address the preventive challenges of the future and the use of new technologies applied to the improvement of working conditions.
In detail, the object of the project awarded today has been to design an artificial intelligence, a computer algorithm, aimed at improving the safety and health of people in forestry operations. This algorithm is able to analyze in depth the correlation that exists between different variables selected in forestry operations, and the risk of harm to people in an accident at work.
Through this analysis, the tool provides data about the greater or lesser probability that an occupational injury may materialize for the safety and health of people, in order to be able to act with preventive or corrective measures before this damage occurs, acting thus preventively and proactively based on the predictions provided daily by the algorithm.
“At present, our algorithm is in a phase of optimization and continuous learning, to continue analyzing more variables that may impact the operation and incorporate them into our mathematical model,” explains Roberto Manteiga, Manager of Occupational Health and Safety of the area responsible for the draft. “Although we are very proud of the results that are being obtained in improving the safety and health of people in forestry work environments, at Ence we are firmly convinced that we can continue to innovate and improve these results,” he assures.
Ence, as a benchmark company in sustainable and responsible forest management, is a driver of health and safety in the national forest sector, creating and promoting a preventive culture and developing innovative actions and R & D & I focused on people, their behaviors and its operations, to create healthier and safer forest work environments.
