Improving Industrial Safety by Auto-Generating Case-specific Preventive Recommendations

Sangameshwar Patil, Sumit Koundanya, Shubham Kumbhar, Alok Kumar


Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel application to improve industrial safety by generating preventive recommendations using LLMs. Using a dataset of 275 incidents representing 11 different incident types sampled from real-life OSHA incidents, we compare three different LLMs to evaluate the quality of preventive recommendations generated by them. We also show that LLMs are not a panacea for the preventive recommendation generation task. They have limitations and can produce responses that are incorrect or irrelevant. We found that about 65% of the output from Vicuna model was not acceptable at all at the basic readability and other sanity checks level. Mistral and Phi_3 are better than Vicuna, but not all of their recommendations are of similar quality. We find that for a given safety incident case, the generated recommendations can be categorized as specific, generic, or irrelevant. This helps us to better quantify and compare the performance of the models. This paper is among the initial and novel work for the preventive recommendation generation problem. We believe it will pave way for use of NLP to positively impact the industrial safety.
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2024.nlp4pi-1.30
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Daryna Dementieva, Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Rada Mihalcea, Giorgio Piatti, Joel Tetreault, Steven Wilson, Jieyu Zhao
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Sangameshwar Patil, Sumit Koundanya, Shubham Kumbhar, and Alok Kumar. 2024. Improving Industrial Safety by Auto-Generating Case-specific Preventive Recommendations. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, pages 349–353, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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