AI in wellbeing and safety: hype or real help?
AI is everywhere. Even if you don’t purposefully use generative AI like ChatGPT or Copilot, it is impossible to imagine your life without it. Think of your mailbox making suggestions, your smartphone finishing sentences or simply the voice recognition on your device smoothly writing down what you dictate. However, it is the advent of generative AI (GenAI) that has provided momentum in just about every sector in recent years. Also within risk prevention, safety and wellbeing at work.
Learning architect Tiffany Motton explains how to use this smart technology intelligently.
The challenge for your wellbeing policy
The work context is more complex than ever: hybrid working, diversity in teams, stricter regulations and a mountain of data (accident reports, absenteeism rates, screenings, audits). For prevention advisors and managers, this means a lot of expectations but very little time. And this challenge is particularly palpable in SMEs, where the role of risk prevention advisor is often an extra that HR employees, managers or company directors take up.
The risk?
That wellbeing policy remains a paper exercise, while employees really need clear communication, useful tools and tangible initiatives. Because how do you translate analyses and screenings into clear actions? How do you make time for communication, awareness-raising or onboarding when your schedule is already full?
“AI does not replace you as a risk prevention advisor. It is not a threat, but a lever. AI actually helps you make wellbeing and safety truly part of everyday life in your organisation. To make more impact, with less stress. So you can move from plan to action faster.”
Tiffany Motton
Learning architect at Mensura
AI as an ally of your wellbeing policy
Tiffany: “AI – and more specifically generative AI – can help you save time as well as increase the quality of your actions. It certainly won’t be able to take over the role of the risk prevention advisor, but as a smart assistant, it will create space in your schedule. Consider:
quickly write texts in your style
co-designing visual materials
automate repetitive tasks
structure loose ideas or documents
help you communicate with impact, without unnecessary detours
So GenAI can help you really bring your safety and wellbeing policies to life, with less pressure and more focus on what matters.”
An example
“Suppose you want to launch an internal awareness campaign on ergonomics or safe commuting. You feed a clear description of your idea into a GenAI tool like Copilot or ChatGPT and instantly you get:
a suggestion for a newsletter or e-mail
posters in your house style
ideas for a toolbox meeting or onboarding moment
variations for different target groups (workers, employees, external parties)
You can work on this further to achieve a beautiful, usable end result.”
Get started with a hands-on training course
Generative AI offers huge opportunities, but you need to know how to translate those opportunities into your own wellbeing policy. How to give the right instructions and avoid AI pitfalls.
With the one-day training course ‘AI in action for wellbeing and safety’, Mensura offers an answer to those questions. Tiffany: “We developed a practical, low-threshold training course around using AI for your wellbeing policy. We deliberately target HR professionals, prevention advisors and business managers in SMEs. In our one-day training course, you will learn:
how generative AI works, what it can and cannot do
how to write good prompts that produce useful output
how to use AI for onboarding, communication and awareness-raising
what risks are involved (use of sensitive data, bias in data)
how to use it responsibly in your organisation
Moreover, with the advent of the European AI Act, employers also have a clear responsibility: to make employees AI-literate. Not everyone needs to become an AI expert, but you need to know how to use the technology safely and consciously.”