Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) professionals face mounting pressure to enhance safety outcomes while managing complex compliance requirements and administrative burdens. The solution isn’t just any AI tool—it’s practical, purpose-built AI that integrates seamlessly into daily EHS workflows.
Benchmark Gensuite’s first-to-market Genny AI suite offers a comprehensive, three-tiered approach to EHS artificial intelligence:
- AI Helpers are lightweight, generative AI features designed to help users get started, fill in gaps, and save time by enabling an activity, like reporting an incident or reviewing a document.
- AI Assistants analyze large volumes of data to identify patterns, trends, and emerging risks at scale.
- AI Agents that execute tasks autonomously with minimal human intervention.
Unlike generic AI tools, these solutions are designed collaboratively by EHS experts for EHS professionals, delivering immediate value without the complexity of external integrations.
In this three-part blog series, we’ll explore how stakeholders at every level—from frontline employees, managers, and executives—are using Genny AI today to accelerate smarter decision-making, reduce administrative workloads, and simplify their daily tasks.
Here are 10 proven ways organizations across the globe are leveraging Benchmark Gensuite’s AI Helpers to streamline operations, improve data quality, and achieve safety excellence.
Automating Chemical Data Entry with SDS AI Helper 📋
The SDS AI Helper revolutionizes how organizations manage chemical inventory by automatically extracting critical information from Safety Data Sheets. Using advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology, this tool reads PDF and Word documents to populate chemical approval forms instantly.
Real-world impact:
- Extracts complete product descriptions, chemical constituents, and concentrations
- Summarizes essential regulatory details automatically
- Prevents transcription errors that could lead to compliance issues
- Reduces manual data entry time by 15 minutes per chemical
Who benefits: EHS professionals managing chemical inventories, environmental compliance specialists, and facility managers overseeing hazardous materials.
Generating Corrective Action Plans in Seconds ⚡
Ever felt stuck staring at a blank page? The Suggestion AI Helper can help you conquer writer’s block by instantly creating a first draft of a detailed corrective action plan for you based on contextual information from reported incidents, good catches, concerns, or audit findings.
Key advantages:
- Drafts a comprehensive action plan in seconds
- Considers contextual info and organizational requirements
- Provides you with a completely customizable draft that you can tailor to ensure alignment with all regulatory requirements and company policies
- Saves 5-10 minutes per corrective action while improving consistency
Perfect for: Incident investigators; safety, sustainability, and quality managers; and compliance coordinators who need to develop thorough corrective actions quickly.
Streamlining Compliance Task Planning 📅
Managing regulatory compliance calendars becomes effortless with the Compliance Task AI Helper, which drafts detailed compliance plans based on specific obligations and requirements.
Benefits include:
- Automated generation of compliance task descriptions
- Alignment with regulatory requirements and company policies
- Customizable plans that can be tailored to reflect site-specific conditions
- Saves 10-15 minutes per compliance task
Ideal users: Compliance managers, environmental coordinators, and regulatory affairs specialists maintaining complex compliance calendars.
Instantly Summarizing Critical Documents 📄
The Summarize AI Helper leverages optimal character recognition (OCR) technology to analyze and extract key information from attached documents, including lengthy procedures, policies, and regulations—eliminating time-consuming manual reviews.
Practical applications:
- Quickly identifies critical information in complex procedures
- Summarizes regulatory guidance for immediate understanding
- Reduces review timeframes by 5-10 minutes per document
Best suited for: Frontline employees, site leaders, and EHSQ professionals who regularly review policies, procedures, and technical documentation.
Enhancing Safety Reporting with Image Analysis 📸
The Image AI Helper transforms how organizations capture and document safety concerns by automatically analyzing photos and generating detailed descriptions of hazards, defects, and risks.
Game-changing features:
- Instant analysis of photographs containing safety concerns and potential risks
- Automated generation of hazard descriptions
- Reduced manual data entry for frontline workers
- Improved accuracy and completeness of incident reports
Saves time for: Frontline employees reporting safety concerns, supervisors conducting inspections, and EHSQ professionals managing incident data.
Delivering Actionable Insights Across Operations 📊
The Insights AI Helper analyzes forms, datasets, and dashboards to provide prioritized summaries of trends, anomalies, and critical data points, helping organizations focus on what matters most.
Comprehensive coverage includes:
- Analysis of data sets across 15+ platform applications
- Trend identification and anomaly detection
- Risk factor and to-do list prioritization
- To-do list generation
Essential for: Site leaders making data-driven decisions, EHS professionals monitoring performance trends, and executives requiring quick insights.
According to Mary Ann Polad, Boston Beer Company’s Director of EHS, Security & Sustainability: “The summaries that we can generate do that first round of initial thinking about what’s occurred in our environment and where we should focus. We can get this key interpretation, think about it, and validate it, but it’s saving us that initial time of interpretation.”
Improving Data Quality with Writing Assistance ✍️
The Writing AI Helper uses natural language processing to analyze event descriptions and provide real-time recommendations for improving the accuracy, completeness, and clarity of safety reports.
Quality improvements:
- Provide workers with real-time feedback as they fill out forms
- Surface suggestions for enhancing details and descriptions
- Improve data quality from initial capture
- 7-minute average time savings per report
Valuable to: Frontline employees documenting safety activities, including incidents, corrective action plans, safety concerns/good catches and inspections.
As one power user put it, “Describe It and Writing Assistance have really been a huge benefit to us, because it’s driving the thought process of non-EHS professionals filling out reports. It’s helped us get more quality information in the system so we can get more quality information out for continuous improvement.”
Accelerating Incident Communications 📢
The Significant Incident Helper extracts and synthesizes critical details from incident forms, including root causes, to create educational summaries and lessons learned for organizational sharing.
Communication benefits:
- Instant creation of incident summaries
- Extraction of key learning points and root causes
- Professional formatting for leadership communication
- 8-minute time savings per significant incident report
Perfect for: EHS professionals communicating with leadership, safety managers sharing lessons learned, and incident investigators documenting findings.
Enabling Hands-Free Good Catch Reporting 🎤
The Concern Capture AI Helper revolutionizes frontline reporting by enabling voice-to-text capabilities, allowing employees to simply describe safety concerns and good catches while the AI autofills a concern report with their provided inputs.
Revolutionary features:
- Complete hands-free reporting capability
- Voice-to-text description capture
- Photo analysis integration
- Auto-population of concern reporting forms
- 10-minute time savings per report
Transforms reporting for: Frontline employees in the field, mobile workers, and anyone who needs to report safety concerns quickly and accurately while on the go.
Conducting Advanced Incident Root Cause Analysis 🔍
The 5-Why AI Helper guides investigators through systematic root cause analysis, automatically structuring the investigation process and helping identify underlying causes of safety incidents.
Investigation enhancements:
- Structured 5-Why analysis framework
- Provides contextual questioning based on incident details
- Systematic approach to root cause identification
- 15-minute time savings per investigation
Critical for: EHS incident investigators, safety managers conducting root cause analysis, and quality professionals investigating process failures.
Practical AI. Real Results.
Organizations worldwide are discovering that purpose-built AI tools deliver dramatically different results than generic alternatives. Benchmark Gensuite’s Genny AI Helpers provide immediate operational efficiency, enhanced decision-making capabilities, and continuous innovation—all securely embedded directly within your existing EHS management platform.
Key differentiators include:
- No additional costs or waiting periods for AI capabilities
- Native integration eliminating complex implementations
- Proven results with documented time savings across thousands of daily interactions
- Continuous innovation ensuring access to the latest AI capabilities
The data speaks for itself: with thousands of daily interactions, organizations using Genny AI have saved over 3,600 hours (that’s 65 work weeks!) this year.
Getting Started with Enterprise-Ready AI for EHS
Unlike generic AI assistants that require extensive prompting and lack context, Benchmark Gensuite’s AI Helpers are built for safety professionals and embedded directly into daily workflows. Every Helper is globally available to every customer and every user out-of-the-box with their Benchmark Gensuite subscription—delivering immediate value without a learning curve.
Ready to transform your operations with AI that truly understands safety? Contact Benchmark Gensuite to see Genny AI Helpers in action and discover how purpose-built AI can accelerate your path to EHS excellence.
Benchmark Gensuite’s Genny AI represents the industry’s most comprehensive suite of embedded EHS AI tools, trusted by leading organizations worldwide to drive operational efficiency and safety excellence. Learn more about how AI-powered EHS management is transforming workplace safety at benchmarkgensuite.com.
