United StatesConstruction and engineering2025 – ongoingSkanska
Safety Sidekick generative AI assistant
Skanska's early Safety Sidekick users reported less time preparing safety briefings
Problem
Skanska wanted workers to use its safety information when preparing briefings and responding to changing site conditions.
Approach
Skanska's data solutions and IT teams built Safety Sidekick as an internal generative AI tool. Employees used mobile or desktop access to ask safety questions and prepare toolbox talks. They could also submit images of site conditions for questions. Skanska tested the tool with early users before wider rollout.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
Reported benefits concerned preparation time and engagement. Skanska did not quantify those gains or report an injury-rate effect.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Construction and engineering
- Business function
- Production and qualityInternal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Skanska USA Building's chief strategy officer described Safety Sidekick's deployed functions and staged testing. She said early users reported faster briefing preparation and better jobsite engagement, without quantified results.
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